Selected Bibliography

Abel, Elizabeth, Barbara Christian, and Helene Moglen. eds. Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. U Of California P, 1997.

Andrews, William L. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1986.

Baker, Houston A. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991. PS153 .N5 B28

- - -. Black Literature in America. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1971. PS508 N3 B27

Baraka, Imamu Amiri. Confirmation, an Anthology of African American Women. NY: Morrow, 1983. (PS508 .N3 C66)

Barbeito, Patricia F. "'Making Generations' in Jacobs, Larsen, and Hurston: A Geneology of Black Women's Writing." American literature 70.2 (Jun 1998): 365-.

Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave. NY: Norton, 1973.

Berger, Roger A. "'The Black Dick': Race, Sexuality, and Discourse in the L.A. Novels of Walter Mosley." African american review 31.2 (Sumr 1997): 281-295.

Bibb, Henry. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave. (1849). Ed. Gilbert Osofsky. NY: Harper, 1969. E444 O8

Bigsby, C. W. E. The Black American Writer. Deland, Fl: Everett Edwards, 1969. PS153.N5 B5

Bone, Robert A. The Negro Novel in America. New Haven: Yale UP, 1958. PS153 .N5 B6

Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself. Manchester, Lee and Glynn, 1851.

Brown, William Wells. Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter. NY: Citadel, 1969. PS1139 .B9 C55

---. Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Ed. and intro. Larry Gara. Reading, MA: Addison, 1969.

Campbell, Jennifer. "'It's a Time in the Land': Gendering Black Power and Sarah E. Wright's Place in the Tradition of Black Women's Writing." African american review 31.2 (Sumr 1997): 211-223.

Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. NY: Oxford UP, 1987. PS153 .N5 C37

Chapman, Abraham. Black Voices; an Anthology of Afro-American Literature. NY: New American Library, 1968. PS508 .N3 C5

Davis, Charles T. On Being Black; Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present. Greenwich, Conn: Fawcett Publications, 1970. PS508 N3 D3

Ducille, Ann. The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction. NY: Oxford UP, 1993.

Evans, James H. Spiritual Empowerment in Afro-American Literature: Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Jackson, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1987.

Farrison, William E. William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1969.

| Top | Foley, Barbara. "History, Fiction, and the Ground Between: The Uses of the Documentary Mode in Black Literature." PMLA 95 (1980): 389-403.

Gates, Henry L. Jr., ed. "Race," Writing, and Difference. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

---. The Signifying Monkey. NY: Oxford UP, 1989. PS153 .N5 G28

Gibson, Donald B. Five Black Writers; essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and LeRoi Jones. NY: NY UP, 1970. PS153.N5 G5

Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black women on Race and Sex in America. NY: Morrow, 1984. E185.86 .G49

Harris, Trudier. Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance. Volume Fifty. and Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume Fiftyone.. Detroit: Gale, 1986. PN 451 .D52

Heglar, Charles. ed. The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2001.

- - -. Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft. Westport: Greenwood P, 2001.

Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Ed. Jean F. Yellin. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987. E444 .J17 A3

Kearns, Francis Edward. The Black Experience; an Anthology of American Literature for the 1970s. NY: Viking P 1970. PS509.N4 K4

Lane, Lunsford. The Narrative of Lunsford Lane. Boston: Torrey, 1842.

Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.

Nelson, Dana D. The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature 1638-1867. Oxford UP, 1992.

Olmsted, Jane. "The Pull to Memory and the Language of Place in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Praisesong for the Widow." African american review 31.2 (Sumr 1997): 249-269.

| Top | Olney, James. "`I Was Born': Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature." The Slave's Narrative. Ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry L. Gates, Jr. NY: Oxford UP, 1985. 148-75. E444 .S575

Peabody, Ephraim. "Narratives of Fugitive Slaves." Christian Exam.. 47 (1849): 61-93.

Pinder, Kymberly N. "'Our Father, God; Our Brother, Christ; or are we bastard kin?': Images of Christ in African American Painting." African american review 31.2 (Sumr 1997): 223-235.

Pryse, Marjorie, and Hortense J. Spillers, ed. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.

Stepto, Robert B. From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979. PS366 .A35 S7

Stoller, Paul. Black American English: Its Background and Its Usage in the Schools and in Literature. NY: Dell Pub. Co., 1975. PE3102.N42 B57

Tate, Claudia. Black Women Writers at Work. NY: Continuum, 1983. PS153 .N5 B56

Turner, Patricia A. I Heard it Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993.

Washington, Mary H. Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960. Garden City: Anchor-Doubleday, 1987.

---. Memory of Kin: Stories about Family by Black Writers. NY: Doubleday, 1991. (PS509 .F27 M46

Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Ed. Henry L. Gates, Jr. NY: Random, 1983.

Yellin, Jean F. "Texts and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself." The Slave's Narrative. Ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry L. Gates, Jr. NY: Oxford UP, 1985. 262-78. E444 .S575

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