Books by Katherine Fishburn

Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest.

?This guide to works about women's roles and images in popular culture provides descriptive essays and bibliographical citations to scholarly and popular works on a variety of topics related to the general theme. Coverage includes ... women in popular culture, women's roles as depicted in popular literature, magazines and magazine fiction, films, television, advertising, fashion, sports, and comics, and theories of women in popular culture. Five appendixes provide additional documentation and listings of materials. This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are available on particular topics. Selections have been carefully made and the essays painstakingly summarize the contents of books and articles.?-Reference Books Bulletin

Offering a revolutionary way of reading 19th-century slave narratives, Fishburn seeks to recover the philosophical foundations of African American literature.

In this first study of Doris Lessing's science fiction, Fishburn devotes a chapter to each of Lessing's seven novels.