The Portable Promised Land : stories / Touré.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Touré, 1971-

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

vi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 256 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2002.

Summary:

With stunning language and dazzling characters, this debut by Tour introduces Soul City, a wholly imagined utopia where magic happens and black is beautiful.

Contents:

Prologue

The Steviewondermobile

A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love

The Breakup Ceremony

The Sad, Sweet Story of Sugar Lips Shinehot, the Man with the Portable Promised Land

Afrolexicology Today's Biannual List of the Top Fifty Words in African-America

Blackmanwalkin

Attack of the Love Dogma

My History

The Playground of the Ecstatically Blasé

The African-American Aesthetics Hall of Fame, or 101 Elements of Blackness (Things That'll Make You Say: Yes! That There's Some Really Black Shit!)

Solomon's Big Day: a Children's Story

It's Life and Death at the Slush Puppie Open

How Babe Ruth Saved My Life

We Words: My Favorite Things

Soul City Gazette Profile: Crash Jinkins, Last of the Chronic Crashees

A Guest!

You Are Who You Kill: The Black Widow Story

Young, Black, and Unstoppable, or Death of a Zeitgeist Jackey. The Black Widow Prequel and Sequel

Once an Oreo, Always an Oreo. The Black Widow Finale

The Commercial Channel: A Unique Business Opportunity

Falcon Malone Can Fly No Mo

The Sambomorphosis

They're Play My Song

Yesterday Is So Long Ago

Shout-Outs.

Notes:

Designed by Paula Russell Szafranski.

Jacket design by Kelly Blair. Jacket illustration by Christian Clayton.

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 has book review cut from Washington Post laid in.

Banks Collection copy 2 has label "Do Not Remove Book from Resource Area Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture" pasted on half-title page.

Banks Collection copy 2 has Reading Group Guide laid in.

ISBN:

0316666432

OCLC:

50044899