Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread: Standing Together, Side by Side 23
6. 3. Josephine Johnson’s Now in November: Not Plough-Shares but People 59
7. 4. Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: “His Home Is Not the Land” 87
8. 5. Margaret Walker’s Jubilee: “Forged in a Crucible of Suffering” 112
9. 6. Octavia Butler’s Kindred: “My Face Too Was Wet with Tears” 127
10. 7. Toni Morrison’s Beloved: “Feeling How It Must Have Felt to Her Mother” 147
11. 8. Conclusion 186
12. Notes 203
13. Works Cited 213
14. Index 227
15. About the Author 233