{"product_id":"invented-lives-isbn-9780385248426","title":"Invented Lives","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eInvented Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Mary Helen Washington has done more than any other single critic to expand the Afro-American and Anglo-American feminist canons.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Women’s Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This collection is, in fact, two fine books in one: at once an anthology and a critical study.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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, \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e“The Darkened Eye Restored\": Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eMeditations on History: The Slave Woman’s Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHARRIET JACOBS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Perils of a Slave Woman’s Life” from \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(1860)\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eUplifting the Women and the Race: The Forerunners—Harper and Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Iola” from \u003ci\u003eIola Leroy\u003c\/i\u003e (1892)\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAULINE E. HOPKINS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sappho” from \u003ci\u003eContending Forces \u003c\/i\u003e(1900)\u003cbr\u003e“Bro’r Abr’m Jimson’s Wedding: A Christmas Story” (1901)\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The Colored Girl” (1905)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eThe Mulatta Trap: Nella Larsen’s Women of the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARITA O. BONNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored” (1925)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNELLA LARSEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Helga Crane” from \u003ci\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/i\u003e (1928)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e“I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left Her Husbands”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Emergent Female Hero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZORA NEALE HURSTON\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“His Over-the-Creek-Girl” from \u003ci\u003eJonah’s Gourd Vine\u003c\/i\u003e (1934)\u003cbr\u003e“Janie Crawford” from \u003ci\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God \u003c\/i\u003e(1937)\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FIVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e“Infidelity Becomes Her”: The Ambivalent Woman in the Fiction of Ann Petry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNE PETRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Mamie” from \u003ci\u003eThe Narrows \u003c\/i\u003e(1953)\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eI Sign My Mother’s Name: Maternal Power in Dorothy West’s Novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Living Is Easy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDOROTHY WEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Cleo” from \u003ci\u003eThe Living Is Easy\u003c\/i\u003e (1948)\u003cbr\u003e“My Mother, Rachel West” (1982)\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SIX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e“Taming All That Anger Down”: Rage and Silence in the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGWENDOLYN BROOKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The Courtship and Motherhood of Maud Martha” from \u003ci\u003eMaud Martha \u003c\/i\u003e(1953)\u003cbr\u003e“The Rise of Maud Martha” (1955)\u003cbr\u003e“Afterword” to \u003ci\u003eContending Forces \u003c\/i\u003e(1968)\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eMary Helen Washington\u003c\/b\u003e is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. 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