The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in
black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni
Morrison have come to dominate the larger Afro-American literary
landscape. Yet the works of the writers who founded and nurtured
the black women's literary tradition--nineteenth-century
Afro-American women--have remained buried in research libraries or
in expensive hard-to-find reprints, often inaccessible to
twentieth-century readers.
Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New
York Public Library, rescued the voice of an entire segment of the
black tradition by offering thirty volumes of these compelling and
rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays,
and journalism. Responding to the wide recognition this series has
received, Oxford now presents four of these volumes in paperback.
Each book contains an introduction written by an expert in the
field, as well as an overview by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the
General Editor.
Individually, each of these four works now in paperback--including
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke, Elizabeth Keckley's Behind
the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White
House, Six Women's Slave Narratives, and The Collected Works of
Phillis Wheatley--stands as a unique literary contribution in its
own right. Collectively providing a rich sampling of the range of
works written by black women over the course of more than a
century, they pay tribute (now long overdue) to an extraordinary
and influential group of Afro-American women. These new editions
will enable teachers, students, and general readers of American
literature, history, Afro-American culture, and women's studies to
hear at last, and learn from, the lost voice of the
nineteenth-century black woman writer."
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