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Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the "Ancient Power"of Black Women / Marjorie Pryse; 1 Adding Color and Contour to Early AmericanSelf-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women / FrancesSmith Foster; 2 Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses inTwo Slave Narratives / Minrose C. Gwin; 3 Pauline Hopkins: Our LiteraryForemother / Claudia Tate; 4 Out of the Woods and into the World: A Study ofInterracial Friendships between Women in the American Novels / ElizabethSchultz; 5 The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset / Deborah E.McDowell; 6 Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-AmericanCharacter / Bernard W. Bell; 7 "Pattern against the Sky": Deism andMotherhood in Ann Petry's The Street / Marjorie Pryse; 8 Jubilee: The BlackWoman's Celebration of Human Community / Minrose C. Gwin; 9 Chosen Place,Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World / Hortense J. Spillers; 10Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye/ Madonne M. Miner; 11 Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning inToni Marrison's Song of Solomon / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.; 12 The WiseWitches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler / Thelma J.Shinn; 13 "What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow": A Reading of Toni CadeBambara's The Salt Eaters / Gloria T. Hull; 14 Trajectories ofSelf-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction / BarbaraChristian; Afterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's Fiction/ Hortnese J. Spillers The Contributors; Index