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Title:

Invented lives : narratives of Black women, 1860-1960 / [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Anchor Press,

Copyright Date:

1987

Description:

xxxi, 447 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, American.
American fiction--African American authors.
American fiction--Women authors.
American fiction--20th century.
African American women--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Washington, Mary Helen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Darkened eye restored : notes toward a literary history of Black women -- 1. Meditations on history : the slave woman's voice -- Perils of a slave woman's life from Incidents in the life of a slave girl (1860) / Harriet Jacobs -- 2. Uplifting the women and the race : the forerunners--Harper and Hopkins -- Iola from Iola Leroy (1892) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Sappho from Contending forces (1900). Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding : a Christmas story (1901) / Pauline E. Hopkins -- Colored girl (1905) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- 3. Mulatta trap : Nella Larsen's women of the 1920s -- On being young--a woman--and colored (1925) / Marita O. Bonner -- Helga Crane from Quicksand (1928) / Nella Larsen -- 4. I love the way Janie Crawford left her husbands : Zora Neale Hurston's emergent female hero -- His over-the-creek-girl from Jonah's gourd vine (1934). Janie Crawford from Their eyes were watching God (1937) / Zora Neale Hurston -- 5. Infidelity becomes her : the ambivalent woman in the fiction of Ann Petry and Dorothy West -- Mamie from The narrows (1953) / Ann Petry -- I sign my mother's name : maternal power in Dorothy West's novel, The living is easy -- Cleo from The living is easy (1948). My mother, Rachel West (1982) / Dorothy West -- 6. Taming all that anger down : rage and silence in the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks -- Courtship and motherhood of Maud Martha from Maud Martha (1953). Rise of Maud Martha (1955). Afterword to Contending forces (1968) / Gwendolyn Brooks.

ISBN:

9780385248426
0385248423
9780385183932 (pbk.)
0385183933 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)14518988

LCCN:

86024143

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)