The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xxvi

• Introduction by Angelyn Mitchell and Danille K. Taylor
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• pp. 1-12

• Part 1 - History, contexts, and criticism
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• 1 - Early African American women’s literature by Frances Smith Foster and Larose Davis
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• pp. 15-31

• 2 - Women of the Harlem Renaissance by Cheryl A. Wall
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• pp. 32-49

• 3 - Women writers of the Black Arts movement by Eleanor W. Traylor
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• pp. 50-70

• 4 - Contemporary African American women writers by Dana A. Williams
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• pp. 71-86

• 5 - African American feminist theories and literary criticism by Robert J. Patterson
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• pp. 87-106

• Part II - Genre, gender, and race
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• 6 - African American women and the United States slave narrative by Joycelyn Moody
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• pp. 109-127

• 7 - Autobiography and African American women’s literature by Joanne M. Braxton
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• pp. 128-149

• 8 - “Even some fiction might be useful”: African American women novelists by Madhu Dubey
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• pp. 150-167

• 9 - African American women poets and the power of the word by Keith D. Leonard
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• pp. 168-186

• 10 - African American women in the performing arts by Olga Barrios
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• pp. 187-209

• 11 - African American women writers of children’s and young adult literature by Dianne Johnson
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• pp. 210-223

• 12 - African American women essayists by Marilyn Sanders Mobley
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• pp. 224-244

• 13 - African American women writers and the short story by Crystal J. Lucky
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• pp. 245-261

• 14 - African American women writers and popular fiction: theorizing black womanhood by Herman Beavers
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• pp. 262-277

• Bibliography
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• pp. 278-300

• Index
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• pp. 301-306