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- 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.
- About the Author: Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland.
- 480 Pages
- Literary Criticism, American
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About the Book
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.Book Synopsis
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 to expand the Afro-American and Anglo-American feminist canons."--The Women's Review of Books "This collection is, in fact, two fine books in one: at once an anthology and a critical study."--New York Times Book Review"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, Ms. Magazine
About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.54 Inches (H) x 5.58 Inches (W) x 1.15 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 480
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Anchor Books
Theme: African American
Format: Paperback
Author: Mary Helen Washington
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 1988
TCIN: 1005546079
UPC: 9780385248426
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-5677
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 1.3 pounds
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