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Gumbo : a celebration of African American writing / edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 804 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harlem Moon, 2002.
- Summary:
- An anthology of short fiction features contributions by such authors as Edwidge Danticat, Eric Jerome Dickey, Kenji Jasper, John Edgar Wideman, E. Lynn Harris, Terry McMillan, Marita Golden, David Anthony Durham, and Bertice Berry.
- Contents:
- About the Hurston/Wright Foundation
- Note / E. Lynn Harris
- Note / Marita Golden
- Family tree
- The Dew Breaker / Edwidge Danticat
- From Erasure / Percival Everett
- From RL's Dream / Walter Mosley
- From The Harris Men / R.M. Johnson
- The Boy-Fish / David Anthony Durham
- The Way I See It (From A Day Late and a Dollar Short) / Terry McMillan
- From Pride / Lorene Cary
- From What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day / Pearl Cleage
- Mourning Glo / Lori Bryant-Woolridge
- From These Same Long Bones / Gwendolyn M. Parker
- Your Child Can Be a Model! / David Haynes
- From Song of the Water Saints / Nelly Rosario
- Miss Prissy and the Penitentiary / Yolanda Joe
- Luminous Days / Mitchell Jackson
- From Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven / Dawn Turner Trice
- Sonny-Boy (From Pictures of a Dying Man) / Agymah Kamau
- From Water Marked / Helen Elaine Lee
- From October Suite Maxine Clair
- Like Trees, Walking / Ravi Howard
- Weight / John Edgar Wideman
- From Thieves' Paradise / Eric Jerome Dickey
- From P.G. County / Connie Briscoe
- This I know is true
- My Heavenly Father / Dana Crum
- Lion's Blood / Steven Barnes
- The Knowing / Tananarive Due
- Luscious (from Loving Donovan) / Bernice L. McFadden
- From Crawfish Dreams / Nancy Rawles
- Press and Curl / Tayari Jones
- I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies (From The River Where Blood Is Born) / Sandra Jackson-Opoku
- Draggin' the Dog / Anika Nailah
- Museum Guide (From Black Girl in Paris) / Shay Youngblood
- School (From Miss Black America) / Veronica Chambers
- Ghost Story (From Slapboxing with Jesus) / Victor D. Lavalle
- Clarity / David Wright
- My Mama, Your Mama (From Imani All Mine) / Connie Porter
- From Rails Under My Back / Jeffery Renard Allen
- From Dakota Grandr Suite Kenji Jasper
- Love Jones
- The Dinner Party / E. Lynn Harris
- Meeting Frederick (From Douglass's Women) / Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Eva and Isaiah (From Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do) / Valerie Wilson Wesley
- From Discretion / Elizabeth Nunez
- An Orange Line Train to Ballston / Edward P. Jones
- Lucielia Louise Turner (From The Women of Brewster Place) / Gloria Naylor
- Fortune / R. Erica Doyle
- $100 and Nothing! / J. California Cooper
- Are You Experienced? / Danzy Senna
- Group Solo / Scott Poulson Bryant
- Love / Bertice Berry
- From Breathing Room / Patricia Elam
- Love (From Drop) / Mat Johnson
- Antiquated Desires / Cris Burks
- From Rest for the Weary / Arthur Flowers
- From Church Folk / Michele Andrea Bowen
- From Commitment / Thomas Glave
- Black and Boo / Michael Kayode
- Incognito
- Rossonian Days / William Henry Lewis
- Helter Skelter / Marita Golden
- Here Audrey Petty
- Summer Comes Later / Robert Fleming
- The Bulging Bag / Unoma N. Azuah
- From Sap Rising / Christine Lincoln
- Fire : An Origin Tale / Faith Adiele
- Tan Son Nhut Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, 1997 (From The Land South of the Clouds) / Genaro Ky Ly Smith
- Between Black and White / Nicole Bailey-Williams
- Hincty (From The Chosen People) / Karen Bates
- To Haiti or To Hell / Alexs D. Pate
- Mirror Image / Amy Du Bois Barnett
- From What You Owe Me / Bebe Moore Campbell
- Will Not Be Televised / Jewell Gomez
- Fear of Floating / Bryan Gibson
- From The Queen of Harlem / Brian Keith Jackson
- My Girl Mona / Crystal Wilkinson.
- Notes:
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction , Honor, 2003
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gumbo.
- ISBN:
- 0767910419
- 9780767910415
- 0739429795
- 9780739429792
- OCLC:
- 49775418
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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