Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex

by Marita Golden

Overview

Bringing together fourteen African-American women, Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. Ranging in style from Audre Lorde's classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam DeCosta Willis's deeply moving essay on her husband's last years, "every single one of these essays is terrific." — The Washington Post

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385424011
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/01/1994
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Marita Golden is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include After, Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons, and Don’t Play in the Sun. She is the founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, an organization that supports African American writers. She lives in Mitchellville, Maryland.

Editorial Reviews

In this collection of introspective essays, 15 African American women writers explore the ways in which their love relationships have been defined by boundaries set for black women in a racist and sexist society. The topics cover a wide spectrum: Bebe Moore Campbell struggles to resolve her anger over love affairs between white women and black men; Ntozake Shange describes her difficulty in reconciling the pleasure she has gotten from black men with their sexist attitudes; Jewelle Gomez meditates on the strong bond between black lesbians and black gay men; and, in an especially powerful piece, DorisJean Austin recalls a rape she endured as a 12-year-old girl. Golden, who wrote the introduction and contributed an article, has compiled a strong collection of eloquent essays unified by unflinching honesty. Author tour. (Aug.)

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