Conjuring, Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition (Everywoman: Studies in History, Literature, and Culture)

"The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American womens writing... " Modern Fiction Studies "... successfully exposes the core of Black womens writing and confidently places it within the American literary tradition." Belles Lettres Black women have been writing and publishing fiction for more than a century yet little is known of their literary history their influence on each other or the significance of their work to the American literary tradition. All the contributors implicitly address the question of how this recovered tradition reshapes our understanding of American literature.