[Review of] Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers, eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Traditions

Authors

Cortland Auser

Orginal Publication Date

1987

Journal Title

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Volume

7

Issue

ess/vol7/iss1

First Page

70

Last Page

72

Abstract

The centrality of black women's fiction writers may have been a fact before the publication of Pryse's and Spiller's compilation, but this critical anthology establishes such fiction as a main literary current of late 20th century American literature. The writers included do more than enlighten; they exorcise racist and sexist stereotypes and restore many authors to rightful places of recognition where male critics (black and white) failed to place them.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1987