Synopses & Reviews
Review
"It's a pleasure to come across Anna Julia Cooper, an outspoken feminist with a good sharp bite...A Voice from the South [is] one of the primary texts of black feminism."--Newsweek
"[A] landmark collection of feminist essays...The hope and commitment that Cooper was able to summon in the year lynchings reached their zenith [1892] is remarkable.--Eric J. Sundquist in he New York Times Book Review "And there's Anna Julia Cooper, whose eloquent and prophetic writings in A Voice From the South, published in 1892, stands as a hallmark of Black-feminist writing."--Essence
"The most compelling volume of this genre [Afro-American essays]....One of the original texts of black feminist analysis."--The Women's Review of Books
"The most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist thought to come out of the nineteenth century. A provocative look at the issues that dominated the intellectual doscourse of black women during the 1890s "--Mary Helen Washington from the Introduction
Review
"A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published."--Robert Carr, George Mason University
"A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era."--James N. Upton, Ohio State University
"So glad to have this important text available for my course."--Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins College
"A brilliant example of how to discuss together the issues of both gender and race, one of the first in US American discourse to so approach such matters."--Dr. Imafedia Okhamafe, University of Nebraska
Synopsis
In addition to resurrecting the works of black women authors, it is our hope that this set will facilitate the resurrection of the Afro-American woman's literary tradition itself by unearthing its nineteenth-century roots.