black women’s resistance in literature

Analysis of William Wells Brown’s Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on June 9, 2026

Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter is widely recognized as the first novel published by an African American writer. The novel centers on Clotel, the mixed-race daughter of Thomas Jefferson, and explores the devastating effects of slavery, racial prejudice, and gender… Read More ›

Analysis of Lorna Goodison’s We Are the Women

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 9, 2025

This poem, which is part of Lorna Goodison’s collection I Am Becoming My Mother, is representative both of the poet’s particular focus on the experience of women and their strength and of her interest in Caribbean history and the heritage… Read More ›