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About the Book:An African American "regeneration" or "renaissance" has meant a rewriting and a redefinition of their own selves, which embeds within it the concepts of black consciousness, a challenge to European hegemony and a reawakening of the African people. The concept of a black renaissance was an attempt at renegotiating the relationship between the Black world and European domination, political as well as cultural and ideological. Methodologies of history, cultural anthropology, political sociology have been used to examine the African American past. "Whiteness" and "Blackness" are both being restructured and redefined to break the unequal relationships between different groups. This book is a study of the select writing of Toni Morrison, Alice Walkar and Gloria Naylor and how they have succeeded in giving a new meaning to "Blackness" equating it with beauty and strength.About the Authors: Dr. Shobha Padmakar Shinde is currently the Director, School of Language Studies and Research Centre, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. With a rich experience of teaching and research extending over a period of thirty years, she has won a national award for teaching excellence in English. Dr. Shobha Shinde holds many important positions in the University like Member, Senate, Member, Academic Council, Chairperson of Board of Studies and was the Vice Principal of Jai Hind College, Dhule for ten years. She has published more than thirty research articles in national and international journals and has made presentations in conferences in India and abroad. She has recently completed a major research project of the UGC on Indian Feminism and was actively involved in three Ford Foundation Projects. Her interests range from Gender Studies, Critical Theories, Dalit Literature. As Chairperson Board of Studies in English, she was instrumental in designing the curriculum and framing the syllabi of English courses right from undergraduate, postgraduate, M.Phil and Ph.D courses. She holds additional charge as the Head. Women's Studies Centre at North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. She has published four books related to theories and literary studies. Dr.Soma Dasgupta did her schooling from Haryana, Bachelor?s from Christ College, Rajkot; Master?s from St. Xavier?s College, Ahmedabad; M.Phil. from Gujarat University and Ph.D. from North Maharashtra University under Dr. Shobha P. Shinde. She did both her researches on African American Literature as she was deeply touched by the pride and the strength of every black woman to fight for her rights and survive till the end in great oppression. Inspite of being a literature student, she has keen interests in using different software programs and loves the art of teaching using such methods. Throughout her academic life she was preoccupied with teaching at different colleges. While purusing the M.A and M.Phil degree, she taught at H.A.College of Commerce and Behavioral Science Center of St. Xaviers College, Ahmedabad; and during the Doctorate degree she worked at M.J. College and School of Language Studies and Research Centre, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.