Conjuring : black women, fiction, and literary tradition /
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Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1985. |
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Description: | 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/726028 |
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