The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

Table of Contents

Chronology of major works and events
Introduction Angelyn Mitchell and Danille Taylor
Part I. History, Contexts, and Criticism:
1. Early African American women's literature Frances Smith Foster and LaRose Davis
2. Women of the Harlem Renaissance Cheryl A. Wall
3. Women writers of the Black Arts Movement Eleanor W. Traylor
4. Contemporary African American women writers Dana A. Williams
5. African American feminist theories and literary criticism Robert J. Patterson
Part II. Genre, Gender and Race:
6. African American women and the United States narrative Joycelyn Moody
7. Autobiography and African American women's literature Joanne M. Braxton
8. 'Even some fiction might be useful': African American women novelists Madhu Dubey
9. African American women poets and the power of the word Keith Leonard
10. African American women in the performing arts Olga Barrios
11. African American women writers of children's and young adult literature Dianne Johnson
12. African American women essayists Marilyn Sanders Mobley
13. African American women writers and the short story Crystal J. Lucky
14. African American women writers and popular fiction: theorizing black womanhood Herman Beavers
Bibliography.

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