The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture"
English | ISBN: 0231204728 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | ISBN: 0231204728 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 13 MB
One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group―which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others―would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation.
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