Render Me My Song: African American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present

1990 St. Martin's Press hardcover. Sandi Russell. In the last decade, black women writers have come into their own. The voices of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison & Alice Walker resonate throughout the world. Since the first slaves were taken from Africa to American in 1619, black women have been telling tales, singing songs & evaluating in language the world in which they have had to live. This is the story of these women, & their struggle to be heard -- from the 18th century enslaved poet, Phillis Wheatley, through the rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston, the political activism of Angela Davis, to the gifted generation of Audre Lorde & Gloria Naylor.- Amazon