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holes contemplating their invisibility; there are no women dismembering the bodies or crushing the skulls of either women or men; and few, if any, women in the literature of black women succeed in heroic quests without the support of other women or men in their communities. Women talk to other women in this tradition (Washington 7)
This quotation from Washington perfectly brings out the reason for the Black women to become writers and do justice to their Black sisters. Upcoming writers like Rebecca Walker bring with them the promise of taking the work of their literary mothers to another level. Black women's voices are no longer going to remain silent and their stories are going to be heard and appreciated by many more people the world over is a sure sign of the present times. The best part about these writers is that they are now writing not to please anybody but themselves. They are not concerned whether they are accepted or not they write what they wish to write not what others wish to hear.
Works Cited: Dawson, Emma. "Redemption Through Redemption of the Self" in Lillie Howard ed. Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: The Common Bond. Westport. Connecticut, 1993. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Urbana: University of Illinios Press, 1978. Gates, Henry Loius Jr. The Signifying Monkey. Theory of Afro-American Literacy Criticism. OUP. New York, 1988. Washington, Mary Helen. "An Essay on Alice Walker in Roseann Bell., Bettye J. Parker and B. Guy Sheftall Ed. Study Black Bridges : Vision of Black Women in Literature. Anchor Books. New York. 1979.
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