Description
Book SynopsisExamines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the 1970s and 1980s.
Table of ContentsPreface—Speaking To You about the "Changing the Same"
Part I Thinking About Methods
Chapter One — New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism
Part II Ideas of Tradition
Chapter Two — Race of Saints: Four Girls at Cottage City
Chapter Three — "The Changing Same": Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists—Iola Leroy and The Color Purple
Part III Undercover: Passing and Other Disguises
Chapter Four—On FAce: Textual Identities in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun or Marking and Marketing in the Harlem Renaissance
Chapter Five: "The nameless . . . Shameful Impulse": Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing
Part IV The Reader in the Text
Chapter Six—Boundaries: Or Distant Relations and Close Kine — Sula
Chapter Seven: Reading Family Matters
Part V Hesitating Between Tenses or Allegories of History
Chapter Eight—Witnessing Slavery AFter Freedom—Dessa Rose
Chapter Nine—Transferences: Black Feminist Discourse: The "Practice" of "Theory"
