The big mama stories / Shay Youngblood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Youngblood, Shay.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Southern States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Youngblood, Shay (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

106 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Firebrand Books, [1989].

Summary:

"Set in the Black small-town South of the early sixties, Shay Youngblood's stories capture the richness of being raised into womanhood by a community of women. As seen through the eyes of a girlchild mothered by her 'big mamas, ' the daily lives of ordinary incredible women are dynamically portrayed. A 1990 Pushcart Selection."--Jacket.

Contents:

Born with religion

Snuff dippers

An independent woman

Did my mama like to dance?

Miss Rosa's monkey

Spit in the governor's tea

The blues ain't nothin but a good woman feelin bad

Funny women

Maggie Agatha Christmas St. Clair

Uncle Buck loves Jesus, sometime

Watch the spirit move

They tell me, now I know.

Notes:

"Book design by Mary A. Scott. Cover design by Betsy Bayley. Cover art by Desne A. Crossley."

Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has autograph of Shay Youngblood 6/89.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks"

Other Format:

Online version: Youngblood, Shay. Big mama stories.

ISBN:

0932379583

9780932379580

0932379575

9780932379573

OCLC:

19390640