Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 - Paperback

Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 - Paperback

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Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 - Paperback

Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 - Paperback

$28.00
Sale price  $28.00 Regular price 

by Mary Helen Washington (Author)

Concentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen Washington explores the work, the realities, and the hopes of black women writers between 1860 and 1960.

Featuring works by Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, Fannie Barrier Williams, Marita O. Bonner, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Praise for Invented Lives

"Mary Helen Washington has done more than any other single critic to expand the Afro-American and Anglo-American feminist canons."--The Women's Review of Books

"This collection is, in fact, two fine books in one: at once an anthology and a critical study."--New York Times Book Review

"The forceful, uncompromising, and distinctive voice of Mary Helen Washington brings together foremothers and daughters . . . in a volume that presents . . . a century of black women's writing along with a vital new tradition of black feminist criticism."--Marianne Hirsch, Ms. Magazine

Author Biography

Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers.

Number of Pages: 480
Dimensions: 1.15 x 8.54 x 5.58 IN
Publication Date: January 01, 2001

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