AFRO AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
1746 - 1933
An Anthology and Cultural Guide
by Ann Allen Shockley

"DEFINES FOR US THE CANON OF AFRO- AMERICAN WOMEN'S TRADITION WITH GRACE, ELOQUENCE, AND SCHOLARLY INTEGRITY"                                                                                                             - Henry Louis Gates "Potentially one of the most valuable reference tools published in women's and Afro-American studies in the past five years...a trove of information"                                         -Bernard Bell, Professor of Afro-American Literature                                                                  University of Massachusetts "This anthology seeks to record the lives and works of Afro-American women writers from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Some of the writers are well known, whereas others are obscure. Many have been either disregarded or lost to black literature."                                           - Ann Allen Shockley  (from the preface) "A sensitive gathering of powerful works, for serious students of black literature or any serious reader."                                           - Booklist

* Genres include poetry, biography, autobiography, essays, short stories, novels, diaries, and journals 
* Helpful and fascinating biographical sketches for each author
* Critical and historical introductions to each of the book's four sections: Colonial period to the Civil War
     Reconstruction to the end of the century;pre-World War I to the New Negro Movement; and the New
     Negro Movement (the Harlem Renaissance)
* A chronological listing of publications within each period follows the four general introductions
*  Bibliographies of both the primary and selected secondary sources accompany the selections of each
     writer's works
*  Appendix A includes brief biographies of notable Afro-American women writers of the New Negro
      movement who did not publish books, or published them after 1933 
*  Appendix B lists additional sources about Afro-American women writers of the New Negro Movement

Ann Allen Shockley
     -- associate librarian for special collections and university archivist and associate professor of library science
          at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee
     --  co-editor of Handbook of Black Librarianship
     --  novels Loving Her, Say Jesus & Come to Me, and The Black & White of It                                 
     --  short stories

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