Conjuring : black women, fiction, and literary tradition

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Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the Ancient Power of Black Women / Marjorie Pryse 1 Adding Color and Contour to Early American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women / Frances Smith Foster 2 Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives / Minrose C. Gwin 3 Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother / Claudia Tate 4 Out of the Woods and into the World: A Study of Interracial Friendships between Women in the American Novels / Elizabeth Schultz 5 The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset / Deborah E. McDowell 6 Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character / Bernard W. Bell 7 Pattern against the Sky: Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petry's The Street / Marjorie Pryse 8 Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community / Minrose C. Gwin 9 Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World / Hortense J. Spillers 10 Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye / Madonne M. Miner 11 Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Marrison's Song of Solomon / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. 12 The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler / Thelma J. Shinn 13 What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters / Gloria T. Hull 14 Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction / Barbara Christian Afterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's Fiction / Hortnese J. Spillers The Contributors Index

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