"This valuable collection... should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." --Publishers Weekly

This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices.

These essays describe with unusual immediacy the unfolding obstacles to peace between Egypt and Israel, with a central focus on the Palestine issue. In one especially powerful chapter, the writings of an Arab woman from Nazareth eloquently testify to the difficulties of life for the Palestinians under Israeli rule. Other chapters treat Israeli policies in the West Bank and Gaza, the impact of Israeli politics on the peace issue, and the Palestinians' response to the occupation.

"The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American women's writing... " --Modern Fiction Studies

..". successfully exposes] the core of Black women's 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...