Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction to Teaching African American Women's Writing; G.Wisker Teaching The Color Purple ; G.Wisker Tune in and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God ; V.Bazin Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory; D.L.Madsen Teaching Four African-American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez; F.E.De Lancey 'This Crisis in the History of the Negro': Contending Forces at the Nexus of Debate; J.S.Sanders (En)lightening the Dark Vision: Redemption through Storytelling in Toni Morrison's Beloved; L.J.Holland-Toll & A.R.Mullis When the Rainbow is Not Enough: Using African American Literature to Demystify Race in a Caribbean Tertiary Environment; P.Morgan Teaching African American Women's Literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the Deep North; C.Ferrier Postgraduate Students Working on African American Women's Writing: Supervision and the Research Journey; M.Treby & G.Wisker Chronology of Key Publications and Events Selective Guide to Further Reading, Books, Journal Articles and Web Resources List of Key Authors and Critics Index