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...
Concentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen Washington explores the work, the realities, and the hopes of black women wr...
This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections.The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.
"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." --The New York Times Book Review"
This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections.The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.
