Mary Helen Washington

Invented Lives

Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1988
• Englisch, Französisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780385248426
• ISBN-10: 0385248423
• Artikelnr.: 21459357

Autorenporträt

Mary Helen Washington

Inhaltsangabe

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