Provides brief biographical information on eleven Native American women writers and discusses their work through critical excerpts. Includes a bibliography of works written by each featured author.
Examines the six autobiographical volumes of Maya Angelou. Although distinct in style and narration, these books are united through a number of repeated themes and through the developing character of the narrator. In scope they stretch over time and place from Arkansas to Africa to California to New York City and from confused child to accomplished adult.
Explores the socially conscious verse of radical women poets and the contributions they made toward the development of political poetry from 1910 to 1945.
