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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 American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women / Frances Smith Foster; 2 Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives / Minrose C. Gwin; 3 Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother / Claudia Tate; 4 Out of the Woods and into the World: A Study of Interracial Friendships between Women in the American Novels / Elizabeth Schultz; 5 The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset / Deborah E. McDowell; 6 Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character / Bernard W. Bell; 7 "Pattern against the Sky": Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petry's The Street / Marjorie Pryse; 8 Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community / Minrose C. Gwin; 9 Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World / Hortense J. Spillers; 10 Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye / Madonne M. Miner; 11 Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Marrison's Song of Solomon / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.; 12 The Wise Witches: 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 Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters / Gloria T. Hull; 14 Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction / Barbara Christian; Afterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's Fiction / Hortnese J. Spillers The Contributors; Index