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008    860923s1987    nyu      b    001 1 eng   
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020    0385183933|qpaperback|c$7.95 
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050 00 PS647.A35|bI58 1987 
082 00 813/.008/09287|219 
092    813.008|bI62I 
245 00 Invented lives :|bnarratives of Black women, 1860-1960 /
       |c[edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen 
       Washington. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 Garden City, N.Y. :|bAnchor Press,|c1987. 
300    xxxi, 447 pages ;|c18 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographies and index. 
505 0  Introduction : Darkened eye restored : notes toward a 
       literary history of Black women -- 1. Meditations on 
       history : the slave woman's voice -- Perils of a slave 
       woman's life from Incidents in the life of a slave girl 
       (1860) / Harriet Jacobs -- 2. Uplifting the women and the 
       race : the forerunners--Harper and Hopkins -- Iola from 
       Iola Leroy (1892) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Sappho
       from Contending forces (1900). Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's 
       wedding : a Christmas story (1901) / Pauline E. Hopkins --
       Colored girl (1905) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- 3. 
       Mulatta trap : Nella Larsen's women of the 1920s -- On 
       being young--a woman--and colored (1925) / Marita O. 
       Bonner -- Helga Crane from Quicksand (1928) / Nella Larsen
       -- 4. I love the way Janie Crawford left her husbands : 
       Zora Neale Hurston's emergent female hero -- His over-the-
       creek-girl from Jonah's gourd vine (1934). Janie Crawford 
       from Their eyes were watching God (1937) / Zora Neale 
       Hurston -- 5. Infidelity becomes her : the ambivalent 
       woman in the fiction of Ann Petry and Dorothy West -- 
       Mamie from The narrows (1953) / Ann Petry -- I sign my 
       mother's name : maternal power in Dorothy West's novel, 
       The living is easy -- Cleo from The living is easy (1948).
       My mother, Rachel West (1982) / Dorothy West -- 6. Taming 
       all that anger down : rage and silence in the writing of 
       Gwendolyn Brooks -- Courtship and motherhood of Maud 
       Martha from Maud Martha  (1953). Rise of Maud Martha 
       (1955). Afterword to Contending forces (1968) / Gwendolyn 
       Brooks. 
650  0 Short stories, American|xAfrican American authors. 
650  0 American fiction|xWomen authors. 
650  0 American fiction|y20th century. 
650  0 African American women|vFiction. 
700 1  Washington, Mary Helen. 
994    01|bSTJ