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Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960

Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 Paperback - 1988

by Washington, Mary Helen

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Concentrating 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.

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  • Title Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960
  • Author Washington, Mary Helen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 482
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1988-08-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013775948
  • ISBN 9780385248426 / 0385248423
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.58 x 1.15 in (21.69 x 14.17 x 2.92 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects African American women, American fiction - Women authors
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About the author

Mary Helen Washington 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 Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers.