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Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION &ldquo The Darkened Eye Restored": Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women PART ONE INTRODUCTION Meditations on History: The Slave Woman&rsquo s Voice HARRIET JACOBS &ldquo The Perils of a Slave Woman&rsquo s Life&rdquo from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1860) Bibliographic Notes PART TWO INTRODUCTION Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Forerunners&mdash Harper and Hopkins FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER &ldquo Iola&rdquo from Iola Leroy (1892) Bibliographic Notes PAULINE E. HOPKINS &ldquo Sappho&rdquo from Contending Forces (1900) &ldquo Bro&rsquo r Abr&rsquo m Jimson&rsquo s Wedding: A Christmas Story&rdquo (1901) Bibliographic Notes FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS &ldquo The Colored Girl&rdquo (1905) PART THREE INTRODUCTION The Mulatta Trap: Nella Larsen&rsquo s Women of the 1920s MARITA O. BONNER &ldquo On Being Young&mdash a Woman&mdash and Colored&rdquo (1925) NELLA LARSEN &ldquo Helga Crane&rdquo from Quicksand (1928) Bibliographic Notes PART FOUR INTRODUCTION &ldquo I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left Her Husbands&rdquo : Zora Neale Hurston&rsquo s Emergent Female Hero ZORA NEALE HURSTON &ldquo His Over-the-Creek-Girl&rdquo from Jonah&rsquo s Gourd Vine (1934) &ldquo Janie Crawford&rdquo from Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Bibliographic Notes PART FIVE INTRODUCTION &ldquo Infidelity Becomes Her&rdquo : The Ambivalent Woman in the Fiction of Ann Petry ANNE PETRY &ldquo Mamie&rdquo from The Narrows (1953) Bibliographic Notes INTRODUCTION I Sign My Mother&rsquo s Name: Maternal Power in Dorothy West&rsquo s Novel, The Living Is Easy DOROTHY WEST &ldquo Cleo&rdquo from The Living Is Easy (1948) &ldquo My Mother, Rachel West&rdquo (1982) Bibliographic Notes PART SIX INTRODUCTION &ldquo Taming All That Anger Down&rdquo : Rage and Silence in the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks GWENDOLYN BROOKS &ldquo The Courtship and Motherhood of Maud Martha&rdquo from Maud Martha (1953) &ldquo The Rise of Maud Martha&rdquo (1955) &ldquo Afterword&rdquo to Contending Forces (1968) Bibliographic Notes Index.