Black Feminist Anthologies by Gail Chester

Black Feminist Anthologies by Gail Chester

new daughters

Of this list of great Black feminist anthologies, the only British one is the wonderful New Daughters of Africa: an international anthology of writing by women of African descent, edited by Margaret Busby, Hove: Myriad Editions, 2019.

So here are some more important British Black feminist anthologies to add to the list:

Black British Feminism: a reader, edited by Heidi Safia Mirza. London: Routledge, 1997.

Heart of the Race: Black women’s lives in Britain, edited by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe; new foreword by Lola Okolosie. London: Verso Books, 2018; first published, London: Virago, 1985.

Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World women, edited by Shabnam Grewal, Jackie Kay, Liliane Landor, Gail Lewis, and Pratibha Parmar. London: Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1988.

A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black women poets, by Barbara Burford, Gabriela Pearse, Grace Nichols, and Jackie Kay, London: Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1984.

Daughters of Africa: an international anthology of words and writings by women of African descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the present, edited by Margaret Busby. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. (Although there is a bit of overlap, this is a different collection to New Daughters of Africa.)

Don’t Ask Me Why: An Anthology by Black Women, edited by Da Choong, Olivette Cole Wilson, Sylvia Parker and Gabriela Pearce, London: Black Womantalk, 1991.

Sojourn, Zhana, ed., London: Methuen, 1988. An anthology of poetry and prose by Black British women.