Angela L. Cotten & Christa Davis Acampora 
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight [PDF ebook] 
Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women’s Writings

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.