Conjuring : Black women, fiction, and literary tradition / edited by Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers.
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1985]
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| Series: | Everywoman.
Midland book. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the "Ancient power" of black women / Marjorie Pryse
- Adding color and contour to early American self-portraitures : autobiographical writings of Afro-American women / Frances Smith Foster
- Green-eyed monsters of the slavocracy : jealous mistresses in two slave narratives / Minrose C. Gwin
- Pauline Hopkins : our literary foremother / Claudia Tate
- Out of the woods and into the world : a study of interracial friendships between women in American novels / Elizabeth Schultz
- The neglected dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset / Deborah E. McDowell
- Ann Petry's demythologizing of American culture and Afro-American character / Bernard W. Bell
- "Pattern against the sky" : deism and motherhood in Ann Petry's The street / Marjorie Pryse
- Jubilee : the Black woman's celebration of human community / Minrose C. Gwin
- Chosen place, timeless people : some figurations on the new world / Hortense J. Spillers
- Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner.
- Recitation to the Griot : storytelling and learning in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.
- The wise witches : Black women mentors in the fiction of Octavia E. Butler / Thelma J. Shinn
- "What it is I think she's doing anyhow" : a reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters / Gloria T. Hull
- Trajectories of self-definition : placing contemporary Afro-American women's fiction / Barbara Christian
- Afterword : Cross-currents, discontinuities : Black women's fiction / Hortense J. Spillers.