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Light and legacies : stories of Black girlhood and liberation / Janaka Bowman Lewis.

Author/creator Lewis, Janaka Bowman, 1981- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]
Copyright Notice ̐u2023
Description164 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
American literature--20th century --History and criticism.
American literature--21st century --History and criticism.
African American children in literature.
African American teenage girls in literature.
Girls in literature.
Series Cultures of resistance series
Contents Prologue: The Gift -- Introduction: Remember: Requiem for Black Girls -- Chapter 1. Imagine: Black Girlhood from Play to Possibility -- Chapter 2. Dream: Poetics and Possibilities in Black Girlhood Aesthetics -- Chapter 3. Move: Girlhood and Social Protest -- Interlude -- Chapter 4. Create: On Radical Creativity as a Movement -- Chapter 5. Build: From Black Girl Magic to Afrofutures -- Epilogue: Reading Play as Resistance -- Appendix: A Blackgirl Booklist -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographic references (pages 153-160) and index.
ISBN9781643363868
ISBN1643363867 (paperback)
ISBN1643363859 (hardcover)
ISBN9781643363851 (hardcover)

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