Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976Surveying the evolution of images of black women in black fiction from 1892 to 1976, Christian analyzes novelists from Frances Harper through Zora Neale Hirston to Anne Perty. She traces the struggle of black female novelists to contend against the images that have defined them in American life and literature. Part II discusses three contemporary novelists -- Paule Marshall, Tom Morrison and Alice Walker. |
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Shadows Uplifted | 3 |
The Rise and Fall of the Proper Mulatta | 35 |
The Tone of the Commonplace | 62 |
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