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Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison. By Kelly Lynch Reames
San Diego State University, USA
Palgrave, London and New York.2007. £38.00
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A challenge rang out from the back of Beveridge Hall, during the opening keynote address at the University of London-sponsored conference, At the Millennium: Interrogating Gender, on 9 January 1998. The keynote speaker was Elaine Showalter. The challenge concerned not only Showalter's proposed celebration of "the role of Margaret Thatcher in changing perceptions of women's capacity for political power," but also the complete exclusion of black women from Showalter's elaboration of three paradigms of the female intellectual: the