Conjuring : black women, fiction, and literary tradition / edited by Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pryse, Marjorie, 1948- editor.

Spillers, Hortense J., editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Everywoman

Midland book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

African American women in literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Women, Black, in literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 266 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1985.

Contents:

Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the "Ancient Power" of Black Women / Marjorie Pryse

Adding Color and Contour of Early American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women / Frances Smith Foster

Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives / Minrose C. Gwin

Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother / Claudia Tate

Out of the Woods and into the World: a Study of Interracial Friendships between Women in American Novels / Elizabeth Schultz

The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset / Deborah E. McDowell

Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character / Bernard W. Bell

"Pattern against the Sky": Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petry's The Street / Marjorie Pryse

Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community / Minrose C. Gwin

Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World / Hortense J. Spillers

Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye / Madonne M. Miner

Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.

The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler / Thelma J. Shinn

"What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow": A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters / Gloria T. Hull

Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction / Barbara Christian

Afterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's Fiction / Hortense J. Spillers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0253314070

0253203600

OCLC:

11757301