Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation 

Thabiti Lewis

• Title

  Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation 

• Date 2020
• ISBN 0814346073
• Publisher Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press
• Description ix, 237 p; 9 in
• Language English
• Collections Residency Collection, Workshops
• Summary

  Series Note: African American Life Series
  
  "Black People Are My Business": Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation studies the works of Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis's analysis serves as a cultural biography, examining the liberation impulses in Bambara's writing, which is concerned with practices that advance the material value of the African American experience and exploring the introspection between artist production and social justice. This is the first monograph that focuses on Bambara's unique approach and important literary contribution to 1970s and 1980s African American literature. It explores her unique nationalist, feminist, Marxist, and spiritualist ethos, which cleared space for many innovations found in black women's fiction. (Back cover)

• Tags Biography, Criticism and interpretation, Black Feminism, Feminism and Feminist theory, Black Studies, African American studies, African American literature