Changing our own words: essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women

Reading family matters / Deborah E. McDowell

The permanent obliquity of an in(pha)llibly straight / Hortense J. Spillers

Allegories of Black female desire / Claudia Tate

But what do we think we're doing anyway / Barbara Christian

What is your nation? / Abena P.A. Busia

Living on the line / Gloria T. Hull

I shop therefore I am / Susan Willis

Speaking in tongues, dialogism, and the Black woman writer's literary tradition / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson

Black feminist theory and the representation of the "other" / Valerie Smith.