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Informationen zum Autor Mary Helen Washington Klappentext 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. Bonner! Nella Larsen! Zora Neale Hurston! Ann Petry! Dorothy West! and Gwendolyn Brooks. Praise for Invented Lives "Mary Helen Washington has done more than any other single critic to expand the Afro-American and Anglo-American feminist canons."-The Women's Review of Books "This collection is! in fact! two fine books in one: at once an anthology and a critical study."-New York Times Book Review "The forceful! uncompromising! and distinctive voice of Mary Helen Washington brings together foremothers and daughters . . . in a volume that presents . . . a century of black women's writing along with a vital new tradition of black feminist criticism."-Marianne Hirsch! Ms. Magazine Zusammenfassung 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. Bonner! Nella Larsen! Zora Neale Hurston! Ann Petry! Dorothy West! and Gwendolyn Brooks. Praise for Invented Lives “Mary Helen Washington has done more than any other single critic to expand the Afro-American and Anglo-American feminist canons.”— The Women’s Review of Books “This collection is! in fact! two fine books in one: at once an anthology and a critical study.”— New York Times Book Review “The forceful! uncompromising! and distinctive voice of Mary Helen Washington brings together foremothers and daughters . . . in a volume that presents . . . a century of black women’s writing along with a vital new tradition of black feminist criticism.”—Marianne Hirsch! Ms. Magazine Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 <...
