Unbought and UnbossedUnbought and Unbossed critically examines the ways black women writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters that transgress racial, gender, and especially sexual boundaries. Trimiko Melancon analyzes literary and cultural texts, including Toni Morrisons Sula and Gloria Naylors The Women of Brewster Place, in the socio cultural and historical moments of their production. She shows how representations of black women in the