Table of Contents: Written by herself

Main Author:	Foster, Frances Smith.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1993]
Physical Description:	x, 206 pages ; 25 cm.
Series:	Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:	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. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature.

Table of Contents:

Testing and testifying : the word, the other, and African American women writers
"Sometimes by simile, a victory's won"
Equal men but true women : ther 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.