Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960
Editat de Mary H. Washingtonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1988
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780385248426
ISBN-10: 0385248423
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 142 x 217 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
ISBN-10: 0385248423
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 142 x 217 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
Notă biografică
Mary Helen Washington
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
“The Darkened Eye Restored": Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
Meditations on History: The Slave Woman’s Voice
HARRIET JACOBS
“The Perils of a Slave Woman’s Life” from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1860)
Bibliographic Notes
PART TWO
INTRODUCTION
Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Forerunners—Harper and Hopkins
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER
“Iola” from Iola Leroy (1892)
Bibliographic Notes
PAULINE E. HOPKINS
“Sappho” from Contending Forces (1900)
“Bro’r Abr’m Jimson’s Wedding: A Christmas Story” (1901)
Bibliographic Notes
FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS
“The Colored Girl” (1905)
PART THREE
INTRODUCTION
The Mulatta Trap: Nella Larsen’s Women of the 1920s
MARITA O. BONNER
“On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored” (1925)
NELLA LARSEN
“Helga Crane” from Quicksand (1928)
Bibliographic Notes
PART FOUR
INTRODUCTION
“I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left Her Husbands”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Emergent Female Hero
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
“His Over-the-Creek-Girl” from Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934)
“Janie Crawford” from Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Bibliographic Notes
PART FIVE
INTRODUCTION
“Infidelity Becomes Her”: The Ambivalent Woman in the Fiction of Ann Petry
ANNE PETRY
“Mamie” from The Narrows (1953)
Bibliographic Notes
INTRODUCTION
I Sign My Mother’s Name: Maternal Power in Dorothy West’s Novel, The Living Is Easy
DOROTHY WEST
“Cleo” from The Living Is Easy (1948)
“My Mother, Rachel West” (1982)
Bibliographic Notes
PART SIX
INTRODUCTION
“Taming All That Anger Down”: Rage and Silence in the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
“The Courtship and Motherhood of Maud Martha” from Maud Martha (1953)
“The Rise of Maud Martha” (1955)
“Afterword” to Contending Forces (1968)
Bibliographic Notes
Index
INTRODUCTION
“The Darkened Eye Restored": Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
Meditations on History: The Slave Woman’s Voice
HARRIET JACOBS
“The Perils of a Slave Woman’s Life” from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1860)
Bibliographic Notes
PART TWO
INTRODUCTION
Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Forerunners—Harper and Hopkins
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER
“Iola” from Iola Leroy (1892)
Bibliographic Notes
PAULINE E. HOPKINS
“Sappho” from Contending Forces (1900)
“Bro’r Abr’m Jimson’s Wedding: A Christmas Story” (1901)
Bibliographic Notes
FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS
“The Colored Girl” (1905)
PART THREE
INTRODUCTION
The Mulatta Trap: Nella Larsen’s Women of the 1920s
MARITA O. BONNER
“On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored” (1925)
NELLA LARSEN
“Helga Crane” from Quicksand (1928)
Bibliographic Notes
PART FOUR
INTRODUCTION
“I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left Her Husbands”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Emergent Female Hero
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
“His Over-the-Creek-Girl” from Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934)
“Janie Crawford” from Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Bibliographic Notes
PART FIVE
INTRODUCTION
“Infidelity Becomes Her”: The Ambivalent Woman in the Fiction of Ann Petry
ANNE PETRY
“Mamie” from The Narrows (1953)
Bibliographic Notes
INTRODUCTION
I Sign My Mother’s Name: Maternal Power in Dorothy West’s Novel, The Living Is Easy
DOROTHY WEST
“Cleo” from The Living Is Easy (1948)
“My Mother, Rachel West” (1982)
Bibliographic Notes
PART SIX
INTRODUCTION
“Taming All That Anger Down”: Rage and Silence in the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
“The Courtship and Motherhood of Maud Martha” from Maud Martha (1953)
“The Rise of Maud Martha” (1955)
“Afterword” to Contending Forces (1968)
Bibliographic Notes
Index