Midnight birds : stories by contemporary Black women writers / edited and with an introduction by Mary Helen Washington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Washington, Mary Helen, editor, writer of introduction.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--African American authors.

Short stories, American.

Short stories, American--Women authors.

American fiction--Women authors.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)

Washington, Mary Helen (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 274 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

Anchor Books edition.

Distribution:

Garden City, New York : Anchor Press/Doubleday.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Anchor Books, 1980.

Contents:

In pursuit of our own history / Mary Helen Washington

"We was girls together". Alice / Paulette Childress White; The Riddles of Egypt Brownstone / Alexis DeVeaux

Seduced and betrayed. The bird cage / Paulette Childress White; Laurel / Alice Walker

The politics of sex. Advancing Luna and Ida B. Wells / Alice Walker; aw, babee, you so pretty / Ntozake Shange

"The suspect is black & always in his early 20's". Requiem for Willie Lee / Frenchy Hodges; Remember Him a Outlaw / Alexis DeVeaux

These "wild and holy women". Asylum / Gayle Jones; Jevata / Gayl Jones

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters". Eva Peace / Toni Morrison; Witchbird / Toni Cade Bambara

In honor of free women. Meditations on History / Sherley Anne Williams

"I am not movin'". coming to terms / Ntozake Shange; Medley / Toni Cade Bambara.

Notes:

"This Anchor Books edition is the first publication of 'Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers'."

"Anchor Books edition: 1980."

"Cover illustration by Laurence Schwinger. Cover typography by Judith Turner."

"A Doubleday Anchor Original"--Cover.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks collection copy inscribed "To Joanna Mary Helen Washington".

ISBN:

038514878X :

OCLC:

5726621