A Glance Away 261
Hiding Place 263
Homewood trilogy 263
Hurry Home 261, 262
The Lynchers 261, 262
“Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies,” 263
Philadelphia Fire 264
Reuben 264
Sent For You Yesterday 146, 150, 263
“Surfiction,” 264
Two Cities 265–266
Wildseed (Butler) 164
Wilkes, Albert 150
Williams, John A. 107
Williams, Sherley Anne
ambivalence toward written word 99
appropriation of the body in writing of 102
appropriation of the voice in writing of 98, 100
Dessa Rose 98, 100, 101–102
on value of Black Power Movement 89
Wilson, Harriet 19, 26
see also Our Nig (Wilson)
Winfrey, Oprah
Winona (Hopkins) 46
Winslow, Henry F. 182
woman-centered narrative
assessing as art 233
Hurston’s work in 233
womanism vs. feminism 251
womanist
see also black women
black, vs. white feminist 247
black feminist vs. 234, 251
defined 234, 235, 238, 247
male
womanist aesthetic
see also Walker, Alice
of connectedness 234, 238, 239–244, 246
defined
Hurston represented by 248
overview 233–234, 247–248
the potential womanist 236–238
purple (color) in 247
of self-healing through separation 243
of sensuality 244–247
of sexuality 234, 238–239
of unconditional love 244, 246
“Womanizing Theory” (Juncker) 234
Woman’s Fiction (Baym) 30
A Woman’s Place (Golden) 116
working-class novel
see also folk novel
blues music and 57, 58, 59, 137
class division in 55
international context of 64
the ordinary, portrayed in novels
of single black men 57–58
vice and prostitution as focus 59
Wright, Richard
see also Native Son (Wright)
Ellison and 186
influence of 186
influences on 61
novel’s purpose for 173
Petry on 175–176
politics of 177, 185
as popular novelist 158
as protest fiction writer 173–174
self-exile 179, 183
Steinbeck compared 177
Wright, Richard, critical assessment of works
The Long Dream 180, 184–185
Native Son 175–177, 189
The Outsider 180, 181–182
Savage Holiday 181
Wright, Richard, works
see also Native Son (Wright)
Black Boy 132, 158, 177
Black Boy (Wright) 2
“Blueprint for Negro Writing,” 179
The Long Dream 174, 180, 183–185
“The Man Who Lived Underground,” 186
The Outsider 180, 181–182
Savage Holiday 181
Uncle Tom’s Children 61, 176
writers, black
see also black artist
as collectors and retellers of stories 263, 264, 265
self-publishing of popular fiction 157, 166
for white audiences 37, 61, 161
writers, black women
see also black artist
of detective fiction 160
of science fiction 164
signifyin(g) revisions of (their) works 215–216
writers, white
influence on early fiction 20, 21
of Negro folk novels 57
of New Negro Renaissance fiction 53
writing
enabling coming of age 118–119
as healing 199
as HooDoo 214
as means of recovery 146
Writin’ Is Fightin’ (Reed) 203, 205
Yaffe, David 194
Yeats, W. B. 141
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (Reed) 208–210
Yerby, Frank 158, 160
Young, Al 107, 111, 113, 118
Youngblood (Williams) 107
Zami (Lorde) 78, 82, 234