When God Lost Her Tongue-Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination

Abstract

As a Black Caribbean immigrant woman and candidate in a dual-title Art Education and African American and Diaspora Studies doctoral program who studies and teaches at a university in the United States, I felt a moral and cultural responsibility to write this review for When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination by Janell Hobson (2021). Given the recent U.S. legislative attempts to delegitimize Black studies (Russell-Brown, 2023) and the ban on Black-authored books in more than thirty U.S. states (PEN American, 2023), engaging in this Black feminist literary discourse that pulls Black studies and gender studies toward creative inquiry is important to my work as an emerging scholar.