Claudia Tate (December 14, 1947 – July 29, 2002)Yolanda Williams Page (ed.)
"Claudia Tate (1946-2002)"
''Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers'', Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007, pp. 544–56. was a noted literary critic and professor of

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and African American Studies at

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. She is credited with moving African-American literary criticism into the realm of

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Life and career

Tate was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. She earned her

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from the

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and her

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from

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. She taught at the historic black school

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for 12 years before teaching at

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. She then decided to teach African-American studies at

. Tate's most notable scholarly book is '' Black Women Writers at Work''. She was also the author of two other major works, ''Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century'' (1992) and ''Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race'' (1998). Tate died of

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in 2002, aged 54.

References

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