{"id":16664,"date":"2013-06-01T07:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=16664"},"modified":"2016-12-12T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:59:29","slug":"womens-work-nationalism-and-contemporary-african-american-womens-novels-courtney-thorsson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/womens-work-nationalism-and-contemporary-african-american-womens-novels-courtney-thorsson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women\u2019s Novels\u2014Courtney Thorsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?attachment_id=16665\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16665\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-16665\" alt=\"_Women's_Work_bookcover\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Womens_Work_bookcover.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Womens_Work_bookcover.jpg 250w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Womens_Work_bookcover-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Womens_Work_bookcover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em>Women\u2019s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women\u2019s Novels<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>a new book by Courtney Thorsson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thorsson\" href=\"http:\/\/english.uoregon.edu\/profile\/thorsson\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Thorsson<\/a>\u00a0is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her book, published by the University of Virginia Press in June 2013, is now available from the publisher and other outlets. The publisher is offering a <a title=\"discount from publisher\" href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/docs\/Misc\/Thorsson_flyer_May_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">discount<\/a> through November 15.<\/p>\n<h6><a title=\"UV Press Thorsson book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/4592\" target=\"_blank\">From the publisher<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>\u201cIn <em>Women\u2019s Work<\/em>, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. <!--more-->Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism\u2014practiced by their characters as \u201cwomen&#8217;s work\u201d\u2014that defines a distinct contemporary literary movement, demanding attention to the continued relevance of nation in post\u2013Black Arts writing. Identifying five forms of women\u2019s work as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, Thorsson shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America.\u201dReview<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Women\u2019s Work<\/em> is a substantive, deeply learned, and provocative contribution to the study of an important body of literature. Teasing out the strands in novels where black women\u2019s multifaceted creative work involves the theorizing of U.S. and diasporic nationhood, Thorsson provides a clearly written, intellectually rewarding, well-documented investigation of emphases of post-civil rights, post\u2013Black Power feminist cultural concerns.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Michael Awkward, University of Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women\u2019s Novels a new book by Courtney Thorsson Courtney Thorsson\u00a0is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her book, published by the University of Virginia&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/womens-work-nationalism-and-contemporary-african-american-womens-novels-courtney-thorsson-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25764,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions\/25764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}