Nancy Lynne Westfield

Glimpses of Me and Mine (eBook, ePUB)

A Creative Biography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The problem is that there are more portrayals of the way other people see African American women than the ways we see ourselves. The narrative voice of African American women is largely disregarded, unfamiliar, and stifled. This collection of fiction and creative non-fiction as prayers, poems, short stories, rants, recollections, fantasies, aspirations, divulgences of secrets, accounts of omitted truths, and interpretations of witnessed miracles is meant to add Nancy Lynne Westfield's voice to the stories about African American women by African American women. She offers her stories, and the stories of her family, real and imagined, so African American women are better understood as being creative, multi-dimensional, whole, rounded, complicated, edgy, non-monolithic, and ordinary. These stories, written from three decades of womanist ethnographic research, are meant to persuade that Black women's experience matters to the flourishing of all humanity, and most especially matters to the persistence of African American women, and men and our children--all the kinds of families. These stories provide glimpses of Westfield's understanding of Blackness, anti-Blackness, womanhood, misogyny, and enfleshment. These stories expand what is known about the ways we build, love, suffer, teach, heal, enjoy our friends, make meaning out of our circumstances, and survive. They offer a glimpse of our collective wisdom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666767476
• Artikelnr.: 67723216

Autorenporträt

Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D. is author of Glimpses of Me and Mine: A Creative Biography (Wipf and Stock, 2023). In addition, she is author of ,i>Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality (Pilgrim Press, 2001); co-author of Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon, 2007) and editor of Being Black, Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies (Abingdon, 2008).

Westfield is Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Crawfordsville, Indiana (2019 to present). As part of the Wabash Center programming, Lynne's blog entitled Teaching on the Pulse explores the day-to-day challenges and joys of teaching in higher education and theological education. She hosts a podcast entitled Dialogue on Teaching focused upon conversations with thought leaders in higher education and theological education. She serves as Editor-and-Chief of the Journal on Teaching (ATLA). For a full description of the Wabash Center see: https://wabash.center/.

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