The Cambridge companion to African American women's literature

Introduction / Angelyn Mitchell and Danille K. Taylor

Early African American women's literature / Frances Smith Foster and LaRose Davis

Women of the Harlem Renaissance / Cheryl A. Wall

Women writers of the Black Arts Movement / Eleanor W. Traylor

Contemporary African American women writers / Dana A. Williams

African American feminist theories and literary criticism / Robert J. Patterson

African American women and the United States slave narrative / Joycelyn Moody

Autobiography and African American women's literature / Joanne M. Braxton

"Even some fiction might be useful" : African American women novelists / Madhu Dubey

African American women poets and the power of the word / Keith D. Leonard

African American women in the performing arts / Olga Barrios

African American women writers of children's and young adult literature / Dianne Johnson

African American women essayists / Marilyn Sanders Mobley

African American women writers and the short story / Crystal J. Lucky

African American women writers and popular fiction : theorizing black womanhood / Herman Beavers.