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Informationen zum Autor edited by Marjorie Lee Pryse, Hortense J. Spillers Klappentext All the contributors implicitly address the question of how this recovered tradition reshapes our understanding of American literature. Zusammenfassung Black women have been writing and publishing fiction for more than a century, yet little is known of their literary history, their influence on each other, or the significance of their work to the American literary tradition. This title addresses the question of how this recovered tradition reshapes our understanding of American literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the "Ancient Power" of Black Women Marjorie Pryse 1 Adding Color and Contour to Early American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women Frances Smith Foster 2 Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives Minrose C. Gwin 3 Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother Claudia Tate 4 Out of the Woods and into the World: A Study of Interracial Friendships between Women in the American Novels Elizabeth Schultz 5 The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset Deborah E. McDowell 6 Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character Bernard W. Bell 7 "Pattern against the Sky": Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petry's The Street Marjorie Pryse 8 Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community Minrose C. Gwin 9 Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World Hortense J. Spillers 10 Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye Madonne M. Miner 11 Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Marrison's Song of Solomon Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. 12 The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler Thelma J. Shinn 13 "What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow": A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters Gloria T. Hull 14 Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction Barbara Christian Afterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's Fiction Hortnese J. Spillers The Contributors Index ...
