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OurHistory &Heritage AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE WRITERS Phillis Wheatley Anna J. Haywood Cooper Anna J. Haywood Cooper wrote "Colored Women as Wage-Earners" in 1899. The article, published by Hampton Institute, called for full gender equality including wage compensation for domestic work performed by women. (c. 1753-1784) After being kidnapped from West Africa as a child and taken to Boston on a slave ship, Phillis Wheatley landed in relatively fortunate circumstances-servitude in a Boston family that treated her well and encouraged her education. There she was able to cultivate her natural gifts for verse and language. By the time she published her first poems in 1767, Wheatley had also mastered Greek and Latin (to the amazement of local scholars, many of whom had genuinely believed such feats to be beyond the capacity of Africans). Many of Wheatley's subsequent poetic works, written in the English neoclassical style, were published in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773. Wheatley's literary reputation and personal magnetism gained her admiration both in the United States and England, and after her death she became a potent symbol of Black intellectual accomplishment in the ideological battle against slavery.
Zora Neale Hurston (l 891-l 960) Flamboyant and proud, Zora Neale Hurston was a brilliant chronicler of African American life. Hurston grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all-Black township in the United States; her imagination was fired by the rich oral tradition of the rural South and her sense of self undisturbed by prejudge. “I used to climb to the top of one of the huge chinaberry trees,'' she wrote in her autobiography,” . . . and look out over the world. The most interesting thing that 1 saw was the horizon. . . . It grew upon me that I ought to walk out to the horizon and see what the end of the world was like.” Hurston set out to do just that, studying at Howard and Columbia Universities. She was a lively presence in the Harlem Renaissance before undertaking the field studies of southern Black folklore that would be documented in the classic Mules and Men (l935) and would permeate such luminous works of fiction as Their Eyes Were Watching God. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) "When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” The daughter of Caribbean immigrants who settled in Harlem, Lorde graduated from Columbia University and Hunter College. Her first poem was published in Seventeen magazine while she was still in high school. Lorde was a self-described “Black lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” However, her life was one that could not be summed up in a phrase. Lorde co-founded the Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and formed the <strong>Sister</strong>hood in Support of <strong>Sister</strong>s in South Africa. In 1989, she helped organize disaster relief efforts for St. Croix in the wake of Hurricane Hugo. Late in life, Audre Lorde was given the African name Gamba Adisa, meaning “Warrior: She Who Makes Her Meaning Clear,” It is a name that applies to her whole life. Her struggle against opression on many fronts was expressed with a force and clarity that made her a respected voice to many segments of society. Octavia Butler SISTERHOOD AGENDA 25 SUMMER 2007 (1947-2006) Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California. Octavia Jr., nicknamed Junie, was a shy daydreamer, and later diagnosed as being dyslexic. She began writing at the age of 10 “to escape loneliness and boredom.” “I was writing my own little stories and when I was 12, I was watching a bad science fiction movie … and decided that I could write a better story than that. And I turned off the TV and proceeded to try, and I've been writing science fiction ever since.” In 1979, she published Kindred, a novel that uses the science-fiction technique of time travel to explore slavery in the United States. Butler began her Xenogenesis trilogy in 1987. In 1994, her novel Parable of the Sower was nominated for a Nebula for best novel, an award she finally took home in 1999 for a sequel, Parable of the Talents. The two novels provide the origin of the fictional religion Earthseed. One of very few African American women in the field of science fiction, Butler won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. Butler wrote Fledgling in 2005 before her untimely death in St. Croix in 2006.
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