Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Sources - Nineteenth Century
Burton, Annie L. Campbell. Memories of Chldhood's Slavery Days.
Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood.
Delaney, Lucy Ann. From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom.
Drumgoold, Kate.
Fordham, Mary Weston. Magnolia Leaves.
Gale, Zona. Miss Lulu Bett (stage play).
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. Iola Leory: or, Shadows Uplifted.
Hopkins, Pauline. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Keckley, Elizabeth Hobbs. Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Fur Years in the White House.
Lee, Jarena. Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel.
Prince, Mary.
Prince, Nancy Gardener. A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince.
Stewart, Maria W. Maria Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer.
Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers.
Terry, Lucy.
Truth, Sojourner. Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
Anthologies
Shockley, Ann Allen, ed. Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988.
Selected General Criticism
Andrews, William, Francis Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris, eds. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. NY: Oxford, UP, 1997.
Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. NY: Oxford UP, 1987.
Foster, Frances Smith. Written By Herself: LIterary Production by African American Women, 18746-1892. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.
Hull, Gloria, Patricia Scott, and Barbara Smith, eds. All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies. NY: Feminist Press, 1982.
Criticisms - Female Slave Narratives
Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1986.
Foster Frances Smith. Witnessing Slavery: the Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
-----. Written By Herself: Literary Production of African American Women, 1746-1892. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.
Freire, Paulo and Donaldo Macedo. Literacy: Reading the Word and World. Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1987.
McCullough, Kate. "Slavery, Sexuality, and Genre: Pauline Hopkins and the Representation of Female Desire." In The Unruly Voice:Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Ed. John Gruesser. Introd. Nellie Y. McKay, Afterword by Elizabeth Ammons. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1996, 1-20.
McKay, Nellie. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton." Legacy 13.2 (1996):91-112.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol. New York: Norton, 1996.
Peterson, Carla L. "Doers of the Word" African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880). New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995.
----, "A Sign Unto This Nation." African-American Women Speakers
and Writers in the North (1830-1880). New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995.
Welter, Barbara. "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860." American
Quarterly 18.3 White, Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in
the Plantation South. New York: Norton, 1985.
Pyrse, Marjorie, and Hortense Spillers, eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.
Winter, Kari J., "Breaking Silence.: Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Yellin, Jean Fagan, and Cynthia D. Bond, comp. The Pen is Ours: A Listing of Writings By and Abut African American Women Before 1910 With Secondary Bibliography to the Present. NY: Oxford UP, 1991.
Criticisms - African American Women Writers - 19th Century
Brown, Lois Lamphere. "'To Allow No Tragic End': defensive Postures in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces." In The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Introd. Nellie Y McKay, Afterword by Elizabeth Ammons. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1996. 50-70.
Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
DuCille, Ann. The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
McCullough, Kate. "Slavery, Sexuality, and Genre: Pauline Hopkins and the Representation of Female Desire." In The Unruly Voice:Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Ed. John Gruesser. Introd. Nellie Y. McKay, Afterword by Elizabeth Ammons. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1996, 1-20.
McDowell, Deborah. "New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism." Ed. Mitchell, Angelyn. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Durham: Duke UP, 1994.
McKay, Nellie. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton." Legacy 13.2 (1996):91-112.
Pyrse, Marjorie, and Hortense Spillers, eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985. (Read parts of text.)
Black Feminist Theory - Other
Anderson, Lisa. Mammies No More. Lanham MA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997.
hooks, bell. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End, 1981.
----. Sisters of the Yam. Boston: South End Press, 1993.
----. Talking Back. Boston: South End Press, 1993.
Irigaray, Luce. "Women on the Market." This Sex Which is Not
One. Trans. Catherine Porter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. Freedom.: Crossing Press Feminist Series, 1984.
Smith, Barabara. "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism." Ed. Mitchell, Angelyn. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Durham: Duke UP, 1994.
Spillers, Hortense. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book." Ed. Mitchell, Angelyn. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Durham: Duke UP, 1994Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, 24-28.
Washington, Mary Helen. "The Darkened Eye Restored":
Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women." Ed. Henry Louis
Gates, Jr. Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology. New
York: Penguin Group, 1990.
Sources - Harlem Renaissance to Present
Black Female Drama
Bonner, Marita. The Purple Flower. In Zora Neale Hurston, Eulali Spence, Marita Bonner, and Others: The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals. With an introduction by Jennifer Burton. New York: G. K. Hall & CO. 1996.
----, Exit: An Illusion. In Zora Neale Hurston, Eulali Spence, Marita Bonner, and Others: The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals. With an introduction by Jennifer Burton. New York: G. K. Hall & CO. 1996.
----, The Pot Maker. . In Zora Neale Hurston, Eulali Spence, Marita Bonner, and Others: The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals. With an introduction by Jennifer Burton. New York: G. K. Hall & CO. 1996.
Grimke, Angelina Weld. Rachel: A Play in Three Acts.
Johnson, Georgia Douglas. Blue Blood.
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