Joycelyn out of humor Sentimental ...

Joycelyn out of humor Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women Athens: U of Georgia P 2001 208 pp ISBN 0-8203-2236-9 $4000

In his Foreword to The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (1988) Henry Louis Gates, Jr wrote that "Until now it has been extraordinarily difficult to establish the formal connections between early black women's writing and that of the existing precisely because our knowledge of their work has been exhausted and sporadic" (1988, xi; 1991 xvii). Gates also observ that