Conjuring : black women, fiction, and literary tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1985.
Description:	266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism African American women in literature Women in literature African American women in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- Women authors. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Women and literature. Women, Black, in literature. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/726028

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Other authors / contributors:	Pryse, Marjorie, 1948- Spillers, Hortense J.
ISBN:	0253314070
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the "Ancient Power" of Black Women
1. Adding Color and Contour to Early American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women
2. Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives
3. Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother
4. Out of the Woods and into the World: A Study of Interracial Friendships between Women in the American Novels
5. The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset
6. Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character
7. "Pattern against the Sky": Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petry's The Street
8. Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community
9. Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World
10. Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye
11. Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Marrison's Song of Solomon
12. The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler
13. "What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow": A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters
14. Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction
Afterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's Fiction
The Contributors
Index

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