Preface: The Work of Black Women Writing Communities
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Continued Relevance of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
LaToya Jefferson-James
Chapter One: Doing the Work of ‘Nobler Womanhood:’ Ida B. Wells-Barnett, N.F. Mossell, and Victoria Earle Matthews
LaToya Jefferson-James
Chapter Two: Yours for Humanity: An Examination of the Life and Work of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1856-1930)
Verner Mitchell
Chapter Three: Plagiarizing Blackness: Racial Performances and Passing in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
Tajanae Barnes
Chapter Four: New Nation, New Migration and New Negro: A Reading of Aftermath, Rachel, and Environment
Shubhanku Kochar
Chapter Five: When Madness Makes Sense in Early Black Women’s Drama
Regis Fox
Chapter Six: Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road as Literacy Narrative
LaToya Jefferson-James
Chapter Seven: Karen Lord: Situating the Caribbean Female Space
Jacinth Howard
Chapter Eight: A Retrospective on the Literary Influence of Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey
Alison D. Ligon
Chapter Nine: A Laying on of Hands: Healing the Diasporic Body in Colonized Spaces in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
Joyce White
Chapter Ten: Authorizing Discourse: Black Feminist Theorizing in Michelle Cliff’s Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise
Alexandria Smith
Chapter Eleven: So Eager to Bloom: Reframing Images of Adolescent Protagonists in Edwidge Danticat’s Behind the Mountains and Untwine
Alison D. Ligon
Conclusion: Beginning at the Beginning: Teaching Morrison through Stewart and Hurston through Marson and Conde
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