London: Serpent's Tail, (1990). First edition - "The first comprehensive collection of critical and theoretical essays to explore the literary and multi-cultural traditions of Black American women in many genres over a broad span of time." The book also includes a valuable." Contributors include. Angela Y. Davis, June Jordan, Gloria I. Joseph, David Ames Curtis, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Robert J. Fehrenbach, Daphne Duval Harrison, Billie Jean Young, Regine Altagrace Latortue, Calvin Hernton, Barbara Smith, Joanne V. Gabbin, Nellie Y. McKay, Barbara Omolade, Vashti Crutcher Lewis, Barbara Christian, Zala Chandler, Rudolph P. Byrd, and Chinosole. The writers looked at range from Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth through Regine Altagrace Latortue in Haiti, black lesbian fiction writers, Gwendolyn Brooks and Zora Neale Hurston to Audre Lorde and Alice Walker and more. Frontispiece by Joanne Batiste, and illustrated pages at the beginning of each section. A selected bibliography of English-language works by Black women in the Americas from the 1970s to the present by Gale P. Jackson. Notes at the end of each essay, notes on contributors, index. xlix, 441 pp. ISBN: 1-852421800.