"Over the years, Katie Cannon's students referred to her work in progress as "Katie's canon." Not only does this book represent the canon of Cannon's best work; the book itself directly addresses the issues of canon formation and canon reformation....
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"Over the years, Katie Cannon's students referred to her work in progress as "Katie's canon." Not only does this book represent the canon of Cannon's best work; the book itself directly addresses the issues of canon formation and canon reformation. Cannon canonizes a literary tradition and directly addresses both oppression and liberation of African American women. Now in an expanded 25th-anniversary edition, Katie's Canon still packs firepower"--
"Revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition"--Dust jacket
Foreword by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Foreword to the twenty-fifth anniversary edition by Emilie M. Townes
Introduction -- Part One: Womanism as unapologetic moral agency of Black women grounded in consciousness, critique, and creativity. 1. Surviving the blight. 2. The emergence of Black feminist consciousness. 3. Moral wisdom in the Black women's literary tradition -- 4. Unctuousness as virtue : according to the life of Zora Neale Hurston -- Part Two: Womanism as indivisibly inclusive approach to justice making essential to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. -- 5. Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : the womanist dilemma in the development of a Black liberation ethic. 6. Appropriation and reciprocity in the doing of womanist ethics. 7. Womanist interpretation and preaching in the Black church. 8. Sexing Black women : liberation from the prison house of anatomical authority -- Part Three: Womanism as defiant affirmation of loving our own sources, stories, and culture, regardless. 9. Exposing my home point of view. 10. Resources for a constructive ethic : the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston -- 11. Teaching Afrocentric ethics : "The hinges upon which the future swings." 12. Racism and economics : the perspective of Oliver C. Cox -- Part Four: Womanism as continual moral commitment to participate in critical and constructive movements of the dance of redemption in order to "Remember what we never knew." 13. Slave ideology and Biblical interpretation. 14. "The wounds of Jesus" : justification of goodness in the face of manifold evil. 15. Metalogues and dialogues : teaching the womanist idea. 16. Unearthing ethical treasures : the intrusive markers of social class -- Conclusion : womanist perspectival discourse and canon formation
