Invented lives : narratives of Black women, 1860-1960

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Concentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen Washington explores the work, the realities, and the hopes of black women writers between 1860 and 1960. Featuring works by Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, Fannie Barrier Williams, Marita O. B...

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Other Authors: Washington, Mary Helen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1987.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Short stories, American.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction > Women authors.
American fiction > 20th century.
African American women > Fiction.
Short stories, American > Literary collections.
American fiction > Literary collections.
American literature > Women authors.
Nouvelles américaines > Anthologies.
Nouvelles américaines > Auteurs noirs américains > Anthologies.
Roman américain > Anthologies.
Noires américaines > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Écrits de femmes américains.
Nouvelles américaines.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains.
Roman américain > 20e siècle.
African American women.
American fiction.
Nouvelles américaines > Auteurs noirs américains.
Nouvelles américaines > Femmes écrivains.
Afro-American women > Fiction
American fiction > 20th century
American fiction > Women authors
Short stories, American > Afro-American authors
Women > United States > Fiction
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Romans.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Darkened eye restored : notes toward a literary history of Black women
  • 1. Meditations on history : the slave woman's voice
  • Perils of a slave woman's life from Incidents in the life of a slave girl (1860) / Harriet Jacobs
  • 2. Uplifting the women and the race : the forerunners--Harper and Hopkins
  • Iola from Iola Leroy (1892) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Sappho from Contending forces (1900) / Pauline E. Hopkins
  • Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding : a Christmas story (1901) / Pauline E. Hopkins
  • Colored girl (1905) / Fannie Barrier Williams
  • 3. Mulatta trap : Nella Larsen's women of the 1920s
  • On being young--a woman--and colored (1925) / Marita O. Bonner
  • Helga Crane from Quicksand (1928) / Nella Larsen
  • 4. I love the way Janie Crawford left her husbands : Zora Neale Hurston's emergent female hero
  • His over-the-creek-girl from Jonah's gourd vine (1934) / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Janie Crawford from Their eyes were watching God (1937) / Zora Neale Hurston
  • 5. Infidelity becomes her : the ambivalent woman in the fiction of Ann Petry and Dorothy West
  • Mamie from The narrows (1953) / Ann Petry
  • I sign my mother's name : maternal power in Dorothy West's novel, The living is easy
  • Cleo from The living is easy (1948) / Dorothy West
  • My mother, Rachel West (1982) / Dorothy West
  • 6. Taming all that anger down : rage and silence in the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Courtship and motherhood of Maud Martha from Maud Martha (1953) / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Rise of Maud Martha (1955) / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Afterword to Contending forces (1968) / Gwendolyn Brooks.

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