Contents
 Acknowledgments
 IntroductionGloria Bowles, M. Giulia Fabi, and Arlene R.
 Keizer
 I. Defining Black Feminist Criticism
 IntroductionArlene R. Keizer
 1. But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway: The State of
 Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of
 History (1989)
 2. What Celie Knows That You Should Know (1990)
 3. Fixing Methodologies: Beloved (1993)
 4. The Race for Theory (1987)
 5. Does Theory Play Well in the Classroom? (1996)
 II. Reading Black Women Writers
 IntroductionM. Giulia Fabi
 6. Introduction to The Hazeley Family by Mrs. A. E. Johnson
 (1988)
 7. "Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something": African-
 American Women's Historical Novels (1990)
 8. Gloria Naylor's Geography: Community, Class, and
 Patriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills
 (1990)
 9. Being the Subject and the Object: Reading African-
 American Women's Novels (1993)
 10. Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison (1994)
 11. There It Is: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez (1986)
 12. Conversations with the Universe (1989) 
 13. Epic Achievement (1991)
 14. A Checkered Career (1992)
 15. Remembering Audre Lorde (1993)
 III. Black Feminist Criticism in the Academy
 IntroductionGloria Bowles
 16. Being "The Subjected Subject of Discourse" (1990)
 17. Whose Canon Is It Anyway? (1994)
 18. A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of
 Caribbean Women Writers (1995)
 19. Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the
 Academy? (1994)
 20. Camouflaging Race and Gender (1996)
 AfterwordNajuma Henderson
 Notes
 Selected Bibliography of Works by Barbara Christian
 Index