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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Courtney, "No other but a woman's reason": Women on Shakespeare: Towards Commemorating the 450th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth
SP  - 65-74
ID  - bbbc1260
T1  - "'Shakespeare Is a Black woman': African American Women Writers and Shakespeare"
AU  - Kuman, Nita N
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013
KW  - race
KW  - gender
LA  - English
AB  - Explores the relationship between African American women writers and Shakespeare through readings of Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day (q.v.). "Argues that while the identity politics of both race and gender would indicate an oppositional relationship between Shakespeare and African American women, the responses of black women writers have in fact been far more complex."
ER  -