{"product_id":"invented-lives-narratives-of-black-women-1860-1960-paperback","title":"Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary H. Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen Washington explores the work, the realities, and the hopes of black women writers between 1860 and 1960. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring works by Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, Fannie Barrier Williams, Marita O. Bonner, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eInvented Lives\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mary Helen Washington has done more than any other single critic to expand the Afro-American and Anglo-American feminist canons.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Women's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This collection is, in fact, two fine books in one: at once an anthology and a critical study.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The forceful, uncompromising, and distinctive voice of Mary Helen Washington brings together foremothers and daughters . . . in a volume that presents . . . a century of black women's writing along with a vital new tradition of black feminist criticism.\"--Marianne Hirsch, \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Helen Washington\u003c\/b\u003e is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including \u003ci\u003eBlack-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMidnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eInvented Lives: Narratives of Black Women\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMemory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 8.54 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45338328268902,"sku":"9780385248426","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/M09GVi9WTjA4ODE1OHh0SDljTExXQT09.webp?v=1774630001","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/invented-lives-narratives-of-black-women-1860-1960-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}