Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women / [edited and with an introduction] by Patricia Bell-Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell-Scott, Patricia, editor, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women.

African American women--Biography.

African American women--Diaries.

Women, Black--Caribbean Area--Biography.

Women, Black.

Women, Black--Caribbean Area--Diaries.

Women, Black--Biography.

Women, Black--Diaries.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Diaries.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

429 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Personal writings by contemporary Black women

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1994.

Contents:

Foreword / Marcia Ann Gillespie

Black Women Writing Lives: An Introduction / Patricia Bell-Scott

Part One. Reflecting Girlhood

Part Two. Searching for Self

Part Three. Meaning and Work

Part Four. Living Love

Part Five. Naming Violation and Betrayal

Part Six. Fighting Back

Part Seven. Claiming a New Self

Part Eight. Writing from a Different Place.

Notes:

"'Life Notes' is the first collection devoted exclusively to writings from the journals, diaries, and personal notebooks of contemporary Black women."--Dustjacket.

"The text of this book is composed in Sabon with the display set in Eurostile Bold Extended."

"Book design by Beth Tondreau Design."

"Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 have dust jackets retained.

Banks Collection copy 1 is "First Edition".

ISBN:

039303593X :

OCLC:

28221360