Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933
"As the subtitle of this volume indicates ("An Anthology and Critical Guide"), Shockley presents not just a collection of primary works but also extensive secondary scholarship around these materials. In effect, like a few other important anthologies of African American literature, the volume presents literary historical research and analysis in hybridized form with an anthology of primary texts.Shockley provides a general introduction to the volume, as well as introductory essays to each of the four periods covered by the volume (1746-1862, 1868-1899, 1900-1923, and 1924-1933). There is also a chronology of the writings published by the authors included in the anthology (broken up into four