Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960 / [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington.

Contributor(s):

Washington, Mary Helen

Publication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1987.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxi, 447 p. ; 18 cmISBN:

0385183933 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

813/.008/09287 19

LOC classification:

PS647.A35 I58 1987

Incomplete contents:

The perils of a slave woman's life / Harriet Jacobs -- Iola / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Sappho ; Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding: a Christmas story / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The colored girl / Fannie Barrier Williams -- On being young, a woman, and colored / Marita O. Bonner -- Helga Crane / Nella Larsen -- His over-the-creek-girl ; Jamie Crawford / Zora Neale Hurston -- Mamie / Ann Petry -- Cleo ; My mother, Rachel West / Dorothy West -- The courtship and motherhood of Maud Martha ; The rise of Maud Martha ; Afterword to âContending forces' / Gwendolyn Brooks.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	PS647 .A35 I58 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039000376052

Includes excerpts from writings by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, Fannie Barrier Williams, Marita O. Bonner, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Gwendolyn Brooks.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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