Trials, tribulations, and celebrations : African-American perspectives on health, illness, aging, and loss / Marian Gray Secundy, editor ; with the literary collaboration of Lois LaCivita Nixon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Secundy, Marian Gray, 1938- editor.

Nixon, Lois LaCivita, literary contributor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Health and hygiene--Literary collections.

African Americans.

Older African Americans--Health and hygiene--Literary collections.

Older African Americans.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

African Americans--Health and hygiene.

Older African Americans--Health and hygiene.

Black or African American.

Aged.

Attitude to Health.

Literature, Modern.

Medical Subjects:

Black or African American.

Aged.

Attitude to Health.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 308 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Yarmouth, ME] : Intercultural Press, [1992].

Contents:

Aunt Sue's stories / Langston Hughes

Foreword / Joanne Trautmann Banks

Ethnicity and Healing / Edmund Pellegrino

The Nature of African-American Literature / Ethelbert Miller

Introduction / Marian Gray Secundy and Lois LaCivita Nixon

Section I: Illness and Health-Seeking Behavior

Section II: Aging

Section III: Loss and Grief.

Notes:

"Book design by Jacques Chazaud."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Trials, tribulations, and celebrations.

ISBN:

1877864005

9781877864001

OCLC:

24626430