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Foster, Frances Smith.

Written by herself : literary production by African American women, 1746-1892 / Frances Smith Foster.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.

x, 206 pages ; 25 cm.

Blacks in the diaspora

Blacks in the diaspora.

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

African American women -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.

Women and literature -- United States.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.

Also issued online.

Testing and testifying : the word, the other, and African American women writers -- "Sometimes by simile, a victory's won" : Lucy Terry Prince and Phillis Wheatley -- Equal men but true women : the post-revolution literature -- "Great liberty in the gospel" : Jarena Lee's religious experiences, life, and journal -- Gendered writing for promiscuous audiences : African American women's literature in the antebellum period -- Writing across the color line : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Romance and scandal in a postbellum slave narrative : Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes -- Doers of the word : the reconstruction poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Confrontation and community in Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert's The house of bondage -- "A woman question and a race problem" : The Black woman's era.

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