The freedom to remember: narrative, slavery, and gender in contemporary Black women's fiction

Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself: the ur-narrative of black womanhood

Not enough of the past: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred

History, agency, and subjectivity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose

The metaphysics of black female identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved

J. California Cooper's family: of (absent?) mothers, (motherless?) daughters, and (interracial?) relations

The economies of bondage and freedom in Lorene Cary's The price of a child.