This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni Morrison

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KELLY LYNCH REAMES is Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, USA.

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Introduction 'Sisters in Sin' : William Faulkners's Requiem for a Nun 'The Image of you, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime' : Lillian Hellman's Memories of Black Women 'The Very House of Difference' : Audre Lorde's Autobiographies 'Just This Side of Colored' : Ellen Foster and Night Talk 'Girl from a Whole Other Race' : Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif,' Beloved, and Paradise Conclusion