Black Women Writers, Racism and Sexism
In Carlene Hatcher Polite’s 1967 novel, “The Flagellants”, the main character describes her love affair with a Black poet as “irrevocable trauma.” Ideal, delivers (in part) this message before putting him out of her life: “Denounce the slave nature, the reactionary stigma. Who is enslaving you? Change your mythical virility into courage, your commendable knowledge into spirit.” Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” elicited outraged criticism from the Black community over t