Barbara Christian
Biographic Data
| ID | 282185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Christian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Christian |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
La carrera por la teoría
This paper is a translation of the chapter “The Race for Theory,” by Barbara Christian, which aims to highlight a corpus of barely studied African-American authors up to the 1990s, insisting on the power of their narratives, on the role of race, class and gender in their works and on a proper literary review of those works. Nowadays, it is relevant because it insists on consolidating a philosophy of literary review within the context of black fem…
A disputa de teorias
The Past is Infinite: History and Myth in Toni Morrison's Trilogy
Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism
Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
Camouflaging Race and Gender
Research Article| July 01 1996 Camouflaging Race and Gender Barbara T. Christian Barbara T. Christian Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 55: 120–128. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043741 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Barbara T…
The Race for Theory (1987)
The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History (1989)
But What Do We Think We’re Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History (1989)
Remembering Audre Lorde
Black American, feminist, lesbian, poet...Audre Lord embodied and celebrated the differences between and within us. Barbara Christian commemorates her life and work
Fixing Methodologies: Beloved
commercially inclined commentators. Reviewers almost unanimously proclaimed it a masterpiece. In just six years the number of critical essays published on this novel rivals those written on only a few other contemporary African American novels: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), a favorite of American English departments, and Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), a favorite of women's studies departments. Like these two novels, Beloved has p…
Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction
The Highs and the Lows of Black Feminist Criticism
Conference Call
Research Article| November 01 1990 Conference Call Barbara Christian; Barbara Christian Barbara Christian is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of Black Women Novelists, the Development of A Tradition: 1892-1976 (Westport, CN; Greenwood, 1980); Teaching Guide to Black Foremothers (Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1980); Black Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Black Women Writers (New York: P…
But who do you really belong to — black studies or Women's Studies
(1989). But who do you really belong to — black studies or Women's Studies? Women's Studies: Vol. 17, Across Cultures: The Spectrum of Women's Lives, pp. 17-23
The Race for Theory
I have seized this occasion to break the silence among those of us, critics, as we are now called, who have been intimidated, devalued by what I call the race for theory. I have become convinced that there has been a takeover in the literary world by Western philosophers from the old literary elite, the neutral humanists. Philosophers have been able to effect such a takeover because so much of the literature of the West has become pallid, laden w…
The Race for Theory
I have seized this occasion to break the silence among those of us, critics, as we are now called, who have been intimidated, devalued by what I call the race for theory. I have become convinced that there has been a takeover in the literary world by Western philosophers from the old literary elite, the neutral humanists. Philosophers have been able to effect such a takeover because so much of the literature of the West has become pallid, laden w…
On Black Literary Women and the Evolution of Critical Discourse
We are the ones that we have been waiting for: Political content in Alice Walker's novels
There it is: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez
Black/Female/Critic
Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers
Essays discuss works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Audre Lorde, as well as Afro-American women's fiction, poetry, and biographies in general, and the place of African American women in literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or
No more buried lives: The theme of lesbianism in Lorde, Naylor, Shange, Walker
Kinship and Resemblances: Women on Women
Health care in developing countries
But who do you really belong to — black studies or Women's Studies
(1989). But who do you really belong to — black studies or Women's Studies? Women's Studies: Vol. 17, Across Cultures: The Spectrum of Women's Lives, pp. 17-23
Fixing Methodologies: Beloved
commercially inclined commentators. Reviewers almost unanimously proclaimed it a masterpiece. In just six years the number of critical essays published on this novel rivals those written on only a few other contemporary African American novels: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), a favorite of American English departments, and Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), a favorite of women's studies departments. Like these two novels, Beloved has p…
Conference Call
Research Article| November 01 1990 Conference Call Barbara Christian; Barbara Christian Barbara Christian is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of Black Women Novelists, the Development of A Tradition: 1892-1976 (Westport, CN; Greenwood, 1980); Teaching Guide to Black Foremothers (Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1980); Black Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Black Women Writers (New York: P…
Kinship and Resemblances: Women on Women
A disputa de teorias
No more buried lives: The theme of lesbianism in Lorde, Naylor, Shange, Walker
Health care in developing countries
The Contrary Women of Alice Walker
(1981). The Contrary Women of Alice Walker. The Black Scholar: Vol. 12, Black Literature: Criticism, pp. 21-71
Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition
Journal Article Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition. Barbara Christian. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. 275 pp. Get access Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition. Barbara Christian. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. 275 pp. Rita B. Dandridge Rita B. Dandridge Norfolk State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 9, Issue 3, Decembe…
Conditions: Five
The Short Story in Process
Alternate versions of the gendered past: African women writers vs. Illich
Ritualistic Process and the Structure of Paule Marshall's: Praisesong for The Widow
Patterns and Perceptions of Menstruation
Black/Female/Critic
Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers
Essays discuss works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Audre Lorde, as well as Afro-American women's fiction, poetry, and biographies in general, and the place of African American women in literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or
No more buried lives: The theme of lesbianism in Lorde, Naylor, Shange, Walker
Kinship and Resemblances: Women on Women
Patterns and Perceptions of Menstruation
On Black Literary Women and the Evolution of Critical Discourse
We are the ones that we have been waiting for: Political content in Alice Walker's novels
There it is: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez
The Race for Theory
I have seized this occasion to break the silence among those of us, critics, as we are now called, who have been intimidated, devalued by what I call the race for theory. I have become convinced that there has been a takeover in the literary world by Western philosophers from the old literary elite, the neutral humanists. Philosophers have been able to effect such a takeover because so much of the literature of the West has become pallid, laden w…
The Race for Theory
I have seized this occasion to break the silence among those of us, critics, as we are now called, who have been intimidated, devalued by what I call the race for theory. I have become convinced that there has been a takeover in the literary world by Western philosophers from the old literary elite, the neutral humanists. Philosophers have been able to effect such a takeover because so much of the literature of the West has become pallid, laden w…
But who do you really belong to — black studies or Women's Studies
(1989). But who do you really belong to — black studies or Women's Studies? Women's Studies: Vol. 17, Across Cultures: The Spectrum of Women's Lives, pp. 17-23
The Highs and the Lows of Black Feminist Criticism
Conference Call
Research Article| November 01 1990 Conference Call Barbara Christian; Barbara Christian Barbara Christian is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of Black Women Novelists, the Development of A Tradition: 1892-1976 (Westport, CN; Greenwood, 1980); Teaching Guide to Black Foremothers (Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1980); Black Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Black Women Writers (New York: P…
Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction
Remembering Audre Lorde
Black American, feminist, lesbian, poet...Audre Lord embodied and celebrated the differences between and within us. Barbara Christian commemorates her life and work
Fixing Methodologies: Beloved
commercially inclined commentators. Reviewers almost unanimously proclaimed it a masterpiece. In just six years the number of critical essays published on this novel rivals those written on only a few other contemporary African American novels: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), a favorite of American English departments, and Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), a favorite of women's studies departments. Like these two novels, Beloved has p…
The Race for Theory (1987)
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