Conjuring Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition [Hardcover]

The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American womens writing... Modern Fiction Studies

... successfully [exposes] the core of Black womens writing and confidently [places] it within the American literary tradition. Belles Lettres

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. All the contributors implicitly address the question of how this recovered tradition reshapes our understanding of American literature.

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 Petrys Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character
Bernard W. Bell

7 Pattern against the Sky : Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petrys The Street
Marjorie Pryse

8 Jubilee: The Black Womans 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 Marrisons Song of Solomon
Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.

12 The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler
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