The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance

Abstract

Starting in the mid-1970s, black women came fully into the realization that their oppression was owed to several intersecting factors (what Kimberle Crenshaw identified as intersectionality). And with that appreciation, they began to
forcefully assert themselves in light of the specificity of their multifaceted condition and identity, to that end availing themselves of a range of tools, among which those of Law as Narrative (as detailed in Robert Cover’s essay “Nomos and Narrative”), enabling them to better describe their experience.