{"product_id":"conjuring-9780253314079","title":"Conjuring","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack women have been writing and publishing fiction for more than a century, yet little is known of their literary history, their influence on each other, or the significance of their work to the American literary tradition. This title addresses the question of how this recovered tradition reshapes our understanding of American literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American women's writing ... \" Modern Fiction Studies \" ... successfully [exposes] the core of Black women's writing and confidently [places] it within the American literary tradition.\" Belles Lettres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the \"Ancient Power\" of Black Women\u003cbr\u003eMarjorie Pryse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Adding Color and Contour to Early American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women\u003cbr\u003eFrances Smith Foster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives \u003cbr\u003eMinrose C. Gwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Tate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Out of the Woods and into the World: A Study of Interracial Friendships between Women in the American Novels\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Schultz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset\u003cbr\u003eDeborah E. McDowell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character\u003cbr\u003eBernard W. Bell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 \"Pattern against the Sky\": Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petry's The Street\u003cbr\u003eMarjorie Pryse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community\u003cbr\u003eMinrose C. Gwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World\u003cbr\u003eHortense J. Spillers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye\u003cbr\u003eMadonne M. Miner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Marrison's Song of Solomon\u003cbr\u003eJoseph T. Skerrett, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler\u003cbr\u003eThelma J. Shinn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 \"What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow\": A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters\u003cbr\u003eGloria T. Hull\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Christian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's Fiction\u003cbr\u003eHortnese J. Spillers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400671994199,"sku":"9780253314079","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253314079.jpg?v=1730471257","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conjuring-9780253314079","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}