African Continuum and Contemporary African American Women Writers

The Author: Marion Kraft is a Black teacher, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, in 1946. She studied German, English and Philosophy at the Universities of Cologne, Columbus, Ohio, and Frankfurt a.M., graduated in 1976 and received her teacher's degree in secondary education in 1978. She has been teaching English and Women's Studies at the Oberstufen-Kolleg des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen an der Universitaet Bielefeld since 1982. A translator of poems by Audre Lorde and a co-editor of an anthology on Black Women's culture and politics, she has also published several essays on African American Women's literature. From 1989 to 1991 she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Osnabrueck, from which she received her doctorate.

• Contents: On Textual Politics, Race, Gender and Difference - Telling Her Story Herself: Black Women's Narratives, Zora Neale Hurston and the African Tradition of the Multi-Voiced Text - Re-Writing Her-story and Making Her Meaning Known: The Autobiographies of Maya Angelou and Audre Lorde - Dream Memories: Alice Walker's Womanist Communities and Storytelling Texts - In Search of Their Nations: Paule Marshall's Border Crossing Women - Beyond the Text: Toni Morrison's Songs of Desire.