Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Sisters in Sin": Discourse, Discipline, and Difference in Requiem for a Nun -- 3 "The Image of You, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime": Lillian Hellman's Memories of Black Women -- 4 "The Very House of Difference": Audre Lorde's Autobiographies -- 5 "Just This Side of Colored": Ellen Foster and Night Talk -- 6 "Who Can You Friend With, Love With Like That?": Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- 7 "A Girl from a Whole Other Race": Toni Morrison's "Recitatif," Beloved, and Paradise -- Coda. Getting Past White Women's Fantasies: Living Out Loud -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.