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Invisibility Blues

By Michele Wallace

By Michele Wallace

By Michele Wallace
Series edited by Mike Davis and Michael Sprinker

By Michele Wallace
Series edited by Mike Davis and Michael Sprinker

By Michele Wallace

By Michele Wallace

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Part of Haymarket Series

Category: Nonfiction

Category: Nonfiction

Category: Nonfiction

Paperback $17.95

Nov 08, 2016 | ISBN 9781786631954

Paperback $21.95

Jul 17, 2008 | ISBN 9781859844878

Ebook $9.99

Nov 08, 2016 | ISBN 9781786631947

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    About Invisibility Blues

    First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism.

    Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison,and Alice Walker. Wallace addresses the tensions between race, gender, and society, bringing them into the open with a singular mix of literary virtuosity and scholarly rigor. Invisibility Blues challenges and informs with the plain-spoken truth that has made it an acknowledged classic.

    About Invisibility Blues

    First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Wallace addresses the tensions between race, gender, and society, bringing them into the open with a singular mix of literary virtuosity and scholarly rigor.

    With an updated introduction, this new edition of Invisibility Blues challenges and informs with the plain-spoken truth that has made it an acknowledged classic.

    About Invisibility Blues

    First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism.

    Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison,and Alice Walker. Wallace addresses the tensions between race, gender, and society, bringing them into the open with a singular mix of literary virtuosity and scholarly rigor. Invisibility Blues challenges and informs with the plain-spoken truth that has made it an acknowledged classic.

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    Product Details

    Category: Nonfiction

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Verso
    Nov 08, 2016 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781786631954

    Category: Nonfiction

    Paperback | $21.95
    Published by Verso
    Jul 17, 2008 | 267 Pages | 6-1/10 x 9-1/5 | ISBN 9781859844878

    Category: Nonfiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Nov 08, 2016 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781786631947
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    Praise

    “One of the most talented and provocative cultural critics now writing in the USA. Listen and learn!”
    —Cornel West

    “Michele Wallace keeps her eyes open and her wits about her. Scrupulously fair, honest, funny, clever, wise.”
    —Angela Carter

    “Invisibility Blues shows why Michele Wallace has long been at the forefront of African-American cultural criticism.”
    —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    “Invisibility Blues is a warm book, even a hopeful one. Simultaneously confident and vulnerable, full of hard-earned insights into American culture and un-starry-eyed evaluations of the available role models, it is the unfinished saga of a proud outsider trying to make a place for herself and her sisters.”
    —Lucy R. Lippard

    “Courageous … outspoken … clear-eyed.”
    —Publishers Weekly

    “Wonderful … original.”
    —Susan Brown Miller

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