Gay Wilentz

Gay Wilentz (−2006) served for many years as Director of Ethnic Studies and Professor of English at East Carolina University and Visiting Professor at the University of Belize. Her first critical work, Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora, examines women’s role in the transmission of culture on both sides of the Atlantic. Wilentz is the co-editor of Africa World Press’s Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo, and she is the editor of Jewish immigrant writer Anzia Yezierska’s 1923 novel, Salome of the Tenements, reprinted in 1991. Wilentz has published essays in College English, African American Review, Research in African Literatures, Twentieth Century Literature, and MELUS, among other publications. She also contributed chapters in books on authors from the US, the African continent and the Caribbean. Her most recent book, Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-Ease, is an interdisciplinary, critical work that explores cultural healing in women’s writings of the African Diaspora, indigenous cultures, and the Jewish Diaspora.
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