Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-199) and index.
Contents
Testing and testifying : the word, the other, and African American women writers -- "Sometimes by simile, a victory's won" : Lucy Terry Prince and Phillis Wheatley -- Equal men but true women : the post-revolution literature -- "Great liberty in the gospel" : Jarena Lee's religious experiences, life, and journal -- Gendered writing for promiscuous audiences : African American women's literature in the antebellum period -- Writing across the color line : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Romance and scandal in a postbellum slave narrative : Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes -- Doers of the word : the reconstruction poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Confrontation and community in Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert's The house of bondage -- "A woman question and a race problem" : The Black woman's era.
