The Resource Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960, [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington
Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960, [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington
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- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xxxi, 447 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- 9780385183932
- Label
- Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960
- Title
- Invented lives
- Title remainder
- narratives of black women, 1860-1960
- Statement of responsibility
- [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Washington, Mary Helen
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Short stories, American
- American fiction
- American fiction
- American fiction
- African American women
- African American women
- Label
- Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960, [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographies and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 14518988
- Dimensions
- 18 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xxxi, 447 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385183932
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 86024143
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1010237
- Label
- Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960, [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographies and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 14518988
- Dimensions
- 18 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xxxi, 447 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385183932
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 86024143
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1010237
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