Women Righting/Mulheres Escre-Vendo Afro-Brazilian Women's Short Fiction/Uma Antologia Bilingue de Escritoras Afro-Brasileiras Contemporaneas

Afro-Brazilian women find their literary identity in these tension-edged, bilingual narratives. Exploring the rich context of what it means to be a black Brazilian, each piece transforms the cruel day-to-day realities, through the prism of fiction, into stories of hope for a different future. Instruments of political and social change, these narratives invite readers to explore and analyze a lesser-known aspect of the African diaspora and come to understand the universality and specificity of contemporary Brazilian literature by African women.Lima, Maria Helena is the author of 'Women Righting/Mulheres Escre-Vendo Afro-Brazilian Women's Short Fiction/Uma Antologia Bilingue de Escritoras Afro-Brasileiras Contemporaneas', published 2006 under ISBN 9781902294223 and ISBN 190229422X.