Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960

by Mary Helen Washington (Author)

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  1989

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  In this companion volume to her anthology of stories by Black women writers, Any Woman's Blues , the author explores the works and the worlds of Black American women writers between 1860 and 1960. Bringing together selected short stories and novel extracts from ten writers - Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E.Hopkins, Fannie Barrier Williams, Marita Bonner, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Dorothy West and Gwendolyn Brooks - she introduces a range of voices and draws out the hidden and overt challenges of a body of work rich in cultural, political and literary meaning. Invented lives also includes six chapters in which Mary Helen Washington examines black women writers' search for a narrative structure appropriate to their experiences in American society.