Shaping memories : reflections of African American women writers / edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabbin, Joanne V.

Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women authors--20th century--Biography.

African American women authors.

American literature--African American authors--20th century.

American literature.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This anthology offers short chapters by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. It provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers, and includes an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature in particular.

Contents:

A distant star called possibility : Wintergreen / Nikki Giovanni

Wintergreen and alaga syrup : a writer's reflections on memory, writing, and place / Carmen R. Gillespie

From "Shaping the world of my art" / Paule Marshall

Outside of dreams / Ethel Morgan Smith

The case of the reluctant reader : she who reads last / Sandra Y. Govan

Parting the blue miasma / Kendra Hamilton

New kid on the block / Joanne Veal Gabbin

Obstacles or opportunities : the wisdom to know the difference / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory

The faith walk of writing : connecting head and heart / Marilyn Sanders Mobley

On my return from exile / Linda Williamson Nelson

Of history and healing / Janus Adams

The conscientious outsider / Camille Dungy

The mother's board / Opal Moore

My father's passage / Mari Evans

A blessed life / Maryemma Graham

A birth and a death, or Everything important happens on Monday / Daryl Cumber Dance

Ambrosia / Nikky Finney

Cotton pickin' authority / Trudier Harris

The first time I saw Big Daddy grinning / Lovalerie King

On gardening, or A love supreme / Joyce Pettis

A very good year / Hermine Pinson

Bury the thought / Karla FC Holloway

The death of the mother / Eugenia Collier

A remembrance / Sonia Sanchez

The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday / Toi Derricotte

Afterword: Rites, rituals, and creative ceremonies : a social history of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective / Sandra Y. Govan

Poetry reading : a coda / Opal Moore.

Notes:

"The essayists featured here are members of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective"--Introd.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-48580-6

9786612485800

1-60473-471-X

OCLC:

472605739