A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highli

Sibyl E. Moses identifies and documents the lives, intellectual contributions, and publications of over one hundred African American women writers in the Garden

Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as: Phillis Wheatley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ni

A lyrical exploration of love and loss, this book centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern Black township as they live with and sometimes s