E-Books →Katie's Canon Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community, Revised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1506471293 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 453.92 KB
Katie's Canonis a selection of essays written for a variety of occasions throughout Cannon's celebrated career. This new edition contains three additional essays and a new foreword by Emilee Townes. The volume weaves together the particularities of Cannon's own history and the oral tradition of African American women, African American women's literary traditions, and sociocultural and ethical analysis. The result is a classic. Cannon addresses racism and economics, analyses of Zora Neale Hurston as a resource for a constructive ethic, the importance of race and gender in the development of a Black liberation ethic, womanist preaching in the Black church, and slave ideology and biblical interpretation.