Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960
Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960
$38.08
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 August 1988
Summary
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. 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.
Praise for Invented Lives
“Mary Helen Washington has done more than any other single critic …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385248426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385248423 |
| Author: | Mary Helen Washington |
| Publisher: | Anchor Books |
| Imprint: | Bantam USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 1988 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 142mm x 217mm |
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About The Author
Mary Helen Washington
Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers.
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