African American Women Writers Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/category/contemporary-women-writers/us-american-women-writers/african-american-women-writers/ Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:33:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Book Review: Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck https://booksbywomen.org/book-review-chimamanda-adichies-the-thing-around-your-neck-reviewed-by-reagan-k-reynolds/ https://booksbywomen.org/book-review-chimamanda-adichies-the-thing-around-your-neck-reviewed-by-reagan-k-reynolds/#respond Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:04:32 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=6903 In The Thing Around Your Neck, a collection of short stories written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the reader is exposed to characters that are many things, including a surprise to those who have been limited to a Western literary interpretation of Nigerian culture. Adichie insists on considering the wide variety of Nigerian stories to be […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/book-review-chimamanda-adichies-the-thing-around-your-neck-reviewed-by-reagan-k-reynolds/feed/ 0 6903 Prime Time for Your Short Stories https://booksbywomen.org/prime-time-for-short-stories-by-yamina-collins/ https://booksbywomen.org/prime-time-for-short-stories-by-yamina-collins/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:55:52 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=6142 In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s treatise on women and fiction, Mrs. Woolf lamented that, historically, women had to have both money and a room of their own in order to write – two resources that had been universally difficult, if not impossible, for women to attain back then. However, these days women only […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/prime-time-for-short-stories-by-yamina-collins/feed/ 2 6142 Having it all: Life as a Working Mother and Author https://booksbywomen.org/having-it-all-life-as-a-working-mother-and-author-by-shawna-hill/ https://booksbywomen.org/having-it-all-life-as-a-working-mother-and-author-by-shawna-hill/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:01:03 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=5203 From the perspective of a single mother, it seems that we have to wear all the pants, hats, shoes, and everything in between to take care of our business, right? While this may sound simple enough, I assure you it is not! As a matter of fact, it is extremely difficult to keep the smiles […]

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