Shaking the tree : a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women / edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama, editor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--African American authors.

American prose literature.

American prose literature--Women authors.

American prose literature--21st century.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

African American women--Fiction.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

African Americans--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 292 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Summary:

This anthology showcases the new generation of black women writers in the decade since Terry McMillan's landmark "Breaking Ice." Their literature embodies the tragedies and the triumphs of contemporary black women in their struggle to negotiate a sense of individual identity beyond the limited scope of gender and race.

Contents:

The Incoming Wave: An Introduction

"Home" from the Prisoner's Wife / asha bandele

from Black Ice / Lorene Cary

from Mama's Girl / Veronica Chambers

from Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

"Children of the Sea" from Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat

"Beginning Again" from An American Story / Debra J. Dickerson

"Wonderful Teen" from Don't Erase Me / Carolyn Ferrell

"Markers" from Break Any Woman Down / Dana Johnson

"It's Racier in the Bahamas" from Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair / Lisa Jones

from The Serpent's Gift / Helen Elaine Lee

"July 1978" from The Book of Sarahs" A Family in Parts / Catherine E. McKinley

"What's Love Got to Do with It?" from Every Good-bye Ain't Gone

"The Stranger" / ZZ Packer

"April 1974-Johnson Creek" from Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry

from The Pagoda / Patricia Powell

"Leila, 1998" from Song of the Water Saints / Nelly Rosario

"The Body of Luce Rivera" from Caucasia / Danzy Senna

"The Wall of Pain" from The Fall of Rome / Martha Southgate

from Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion / Natasha Tarpley

"Nepenthe" from Glow in the Dark / Lisa Teasley

"Larchmont" from Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self / Rebecca Walker

"On our Way to Beautiful" from On Our Way to Beautiful / Yolanda Young

"Lover" from Black Girl in Paris / Shay Youngblood.

Notes:

"Book design by Brooke Koven."

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

039305067X

OCLC:

51544099