Fowler, Virginia C., Nikki Giovanni, Twayne's United States Authors Series, No. 613, Twayne Publishers, 1992.
Fowler, who has been a collaborator with Giovanni
(she provided the forward for Giovanni's book
Racism 101), gives a synopsis of the rise of the poet's
career.
Franklin, V. P., Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truth: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Franklin examines how the willingness to use their
own experience as subject matter enabled important
black writers.....
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