I. Introduction

1. On the ‘Res’ and in the ‘Hood’: Making Cultures, Leaving Legacies
      Angela L. Cotten

II. Transformative Aesthetics

2. Self-Help, Indian Style? Paula Gunn Allen’s Grandmothers of the Light, Womanist Self-Recovery, and the Politics of Transformation
      Ana Louise Keating

3. Making the Awakening Hers: Phillis Wheatley and the Transposition of African Spirituality to Christian Religiosity
      Elizabeth J. West

4. ‘Any Woman’s Blues’: Sherley Anne Williams and the Blues Aesthetic
      Michael A. Antonucci

III. Critical Revisions

5. Through the Mirror: Re-Surfacing and Self-Articulation in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms
      Ellen L. Arnold

6. The Red-Black Center of Alice Walker’s Meridian: Asserting a Cherokee Womanist Sensibility
      Barbara S. Tracy

7. Womanist Interventions in Historical Materialism
      Angela L. Cotten

IV. Re(In)Fusing Feminism

8. ‘Both the Law and Its Transgression’: Toni Morrison’s Paradise and ‘Post’–Black Feminism
      Noelle Morrissette

9. Luci Tapahonso’s ‘Leda and the Cowboy’: A Gynocratic, Navajo Response to Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’
      Maggie Romigh

10. Mother Times Two: A Double Take on a Gynocentric Justice Song
      Margot Reynolds

References
Contributors
Index

Angela L. Cotten is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is coeditor (with Ralph R. Acampora) of A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal.