| Description |
266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Everywoman
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Midland book
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Everywoman.
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Midland book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the "Ancient power" of black women / Marjorie Pryse -- Adding color and contour to early American self-portraitures : autobiographical writings of Afro-American women / Frances Smith Foster -- Green-eyed monsters of the slavocracy : jealous mistresses in two slave narratives / Minrose C. Gwin -- Pauline Hopkins : our literary foremother / Claudia Tate -- Out of the woods and into the world : a study of interracial friendships between women in American novels / Elizabeth Schultz -- Neglected dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset / Deborah E. McDowell -- Ann Petry's demythologizing of American culture and Afro-American character / Bernard W. Bell -- "Pattern against the sky" : deism and motherhood in Ann Petry's The street / Marjorie Pryse -- Jubilee : the Black woman's celebration of human community / Minrose C. Gwin -- Chosen place, timeless people : some figurations on the new world / Hortense J. Spillers -- Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner. |
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Recitation to the Griot : storytelling and learning in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. -- Wise witches : Black women mentors in the fiction of Octavia E. Butler / Thelma J. Shinn -- "What it is I think she's doing anyhow" : a reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters / Gloria T. Hull -- Trajectories of self-definition : placing contemporary Afro-American women's fiction / Barbara Christian -- Afterword : Cross-currents, discontinuities : Black women's fiction / Hortense J. Spillers. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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African American women -- Intellectual life.
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African American women -- Intellectual life. |
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African American women. |
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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African American women in literature.
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African American women in literature. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Women, Black, in literature.
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Women, Black, in literature. |
| Added Author |
Pryse, Marjorie, 1948-
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Spillers, Hortense J.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Conjuring. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1985 (OCoLC)558421226 |
| ISBN |
0253314070 paperback |
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9780253314079 paperback |
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