The great white way : African American women writers and American success mythologies / Phillipa Kafka.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Critical studies on Black life and culture ; v. 28. Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1669.
Main Author:	Kafka, Phillipa, 1933-
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Garland Pub., 1993.
Series:	Critical studies on Black life and culture ; v. 28. Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1669.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. African American women > Intellectual life. Women and literature > United States. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. Success in literature. Myth in literature. English literature > By > Black women. United States.
Physical Description:	vii, 223 pages ; 22 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, and European American male success mythology
Wheatley and her literary daughters : from tragedies to triumphs
Harriet Jacobs's use of self-image to represent collective self
"Dis ain't no business proposition. Dis is uh love game" : Zora Neale Hurston's disjunctive conjunctions and European American success myths in Their eyes were watching God
Celie is short for Cinderella : Alice Walker and American success myths.