Frances Smith Foster

Author of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

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Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Womens Studies (Emeritus) at Emory University.

Works by Frances Smith Foster

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The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (1997) — Editor — 161 copies

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (2001) — Editor — 74 copies

Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies (2009) 58 copies, 1 review

A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader (1990) — Editor; Introduction — 39 copies

Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 (1993) 27 copies

'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America (2010) 14 copies

Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives (1979) 11 copies

Love and Marriage in Early African America (2007) 11 copies

Teaching with the Norton Anthology of African American Literature {1st edition} (1997) 6 copies

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) — Editor, some editions — 5,049 copies, 88 reviews

Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868) — Editor, some editions — 653 copies, 21 reviews

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) — Introduction, some editions — 447 copies, 5 reviews

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature {2nd edition} (2003) — Editor, some editions — 282 copies, 2 reviews

Generations: A Century of Women Speak About Their Lives (1997) — Contributor — 111 copies

Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels (1994) — Editor, some editions — 41 copies

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature (2009) — Contributor — 13 copies

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Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies by Frances Smith Foster

This is a pretty lengthy anthology and took me awhile to get through and interesting collection of writing and ideas. Not super heavy on academic language but still a dense read worth taking your time with. My favorites were Michael Awkward's A black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism, When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered content of Afrocentrism, Phallus(ies) of Interpretation: Toward Engendering the Black Critical "I", AIDS the secret, silent, Suffering Shame, and Olympia's show more Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity. show less

Mar 4, 2018