Anthologies of African American Writing

Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960

"Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960" . Ed. Mary Helen Washington. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1987. xxxi+447 pp.; repr. 1988 (paperback).

• London: Virago, 1989. xxxi+447 pp.

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) /; Pauline E. Hopkins --; 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) /; Zora Neale Hurston --; 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) /; Dorothy West --; 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) /; Gwendolyn Brooks --; Rise of Maud Martha (1955) /; Gwendolyn Brooks --; Afterword to Contending forces (1968) /; Gwendolyn Brooks.

• Mobley, Marilyn Sanders. Rev. of "Invented Lives" and other works. "Signs" 14.4 (1989): 934-38. (KM)

Kinnamon 1997: 473, gives date of publication as "1967"]

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