![]() My emotional energy was spent creating a woman's world, telling her side of it because I knew that hadn't been done enough in literature. I bent over backwards not to have a negative message come through about the men. 1 Clearly in the tradition of contemporary black women writers who focus on both race and gender oppression in the lives of black women, Gloria Naylor has acknowledged feeling "very self-conscious" about potential reactions to her treatment of black men in her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place: False Gods And Black Goddesses In Naylor's Mama Day and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God Susan MeisenhelderĪs Deborah McDowell, Calvin Hernton, Valerie Smith, and others have discussed, black women writers face formidable discursive difficulties in dealing with gender issues and have often suffered bitter attacks for their treatment of intra-racial conflict between black women and men. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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