The Woman that I am : the literature and culture of contemporary women of color / [edited by] D. Soyini Madison The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Madison, D. Soyini, editor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

Ethnic groups--United States--Literary collections.

Ethnic groups.

Women--United States--Literary collections.

Women.

United States.

American literature--20th century.

Ethnic groups--United States.

Women--United States.

Local Subjects:

American literature--20th century.

American literature--Women authors.

Ethnic groups--United States.

Ethnic groups--United States--Literary collections.

Women--United States.

Women--United States--Literary collections.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 709 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1994].

Summary:

Selected to represent a rich diversity of voices, styles, and genres, The Woman That I Am gathers 121 works of contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, and cultural criticism by American women of color - African-American, Asian-American, Latina-American, and Native American. Well-known writers such as Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, Amy Tan, Maya Angelou, Jessica Hagedorn, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, and others are presented side-by-side with authors whose works are rarely anthologized. The result is a wonderfully browsable book that offers a tapestry of thought, feeling, opinion, and lived experience from a range of women of color.

Contents:

Fire / Joy Harjo

Ancestors: In praise of the imperishable / Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Hermano / Angela de Hoyos

Second nature / Diana Chang

Muliebrity / Sujata Bhatt

Poetry: The Beirut-Hell Express / Etel Adnan; The prisoner / Ai (Pelorhankhe Ogawa); Suicid/ing(ed) Indian woman / Paula Gunn Allen; Our grandmothers / Maya Angelou; I want to renegade / S. Brandi Barnes; My womb / Esmeralda Bernal; Farolita / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge; For Mama (and her mamas, too); To Grandmother's house we go / Nora Brooks Blakely; for all my grandmothers / Beth Brant; The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks; The antihero / Ana Castillo; Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between the races / Lorna Dee Cervantes; africans sleeping in the park at night / Eileen Cherry; We are Americans now, we live in the tundra / Marilyn (Mei Ling) Chin; I make the fire ; Those tears / Chrystos; what the mirror said / Lucille Clifton; Una mujer loca; What the gypsy said to her children / Judith Ortiz Cofer; Marina; Dark romance /Lucha Corpi; In the morning / Jayne Cortez; Reunion / Thadious M. Davis; Adolescence-I; Adolescence-II; Adolescence-III / Rita Dove; Dear John Wayne / Louise Erdrich; I am a black woman / Mari Evans; Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni; The second time / Rebecca Gonzales; When I cut my hair / Rayna Green; Motown/Smokey Robinson / Jessica Hagedorn; Spider dream / Elaine Hall; I give you back / Joy Harjo; The history of fire; The lost girls / Linda Hogan; What I said as a child; In her solitude: The Inca divining spider (Ana) / Angela Jackson; I done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain / Patricia Jones; War and memory / June Jordan; Sewing woman / Alison Kim; Into such assembly / Myung Mi Kim; On writing Asian-American poetry / Geraldine Kudaka; Wonder woman; Children are color-blind / Genny Lim; I am the weaver / Abby Lincoln (Aminata Moseka); The woman thing / Audre Lorde; Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett; Generations of women; Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe / Janice Mirikitani; The welder / Cherrie Moraga; My father and the figtree / Naomi Shihab Nye; Where will you be? / Pat Parker; First stop/City of senses / Carmen M. Pursifull; Good-bye, my loved one / Diana Rivera; Our side of it / Marina Rivera; Poem for some black women / Carolyn M. Rodgers; Julia; Sipapu / Wendy Rose; Past / Sonia Sanchez; Defining the grateful gesture / Yvonne Sapia; five / Ntozake Shange; Metamorphosis / Carol P. Snow; Keep a dime / Debra Swallow; Suburban Indian Pride; Giving back / Tahnahga; Matmiya / Mary Tallmountain; My mother sews blouses / Gina Valdes; In the summer after "Issue Year" winter (1873); Star quilt / Roberta Hill Whiteman; from "The Iconography of childhood" / Sherley Anne Williams; When I was growing up; For an Asian woman who says my poetry gives her a stomachache / Nellie Wong

The handbook of sex of the plain girl / Marian Yee

Short Stories: Deep purple / Paula Gunn Allen; A girl's story / Toni Cade Bambara; Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros; American horse / Louise Erdrich; Recuerdo / Guadalupe Valdes Fallis; Making do / Linda Hogan; from Black is a woman's color / bell hooks; At the bottom of the river / Jamaica Kincaid; Preciousness / Clarice Lispector; Two deserts / Valerie Matsumoto; A wife's story / Bharati Mukherjee; Paths upon water / Tahira Naqvi; The heart of the flower / Georgiana Valoyce Sanchez; Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko; Two kinds / Amy Tan; Miss Clairol / Helena Maria Viramontes; Wilshire Bus / Hisaye Yamamoto

Drama: Novena Narrativas / Denise Chavez; Hospice: a play in one act / Pearl Cleage; Shango diaspora: An African-American myth of womanhood and love / Angela Jackson; The day of the swallows: A drama in three acts / Estela Portillo; And the soul shall dance / Wakako Yamauchi

Cultural Narratives and Critical Perspectives: You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan; "You may consider speaking about your art" / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn; Some lines for a younger brother ... / Sue Kunitomi Embrey; Homeplace (a site of resistence) / bell hooks; Learning from the 60s / Audre Lorde; Grandma's story / Trinh T. Minh-ha; La Guera / Cherrie Moraga; Rootedness: The ancestor as foundation / Toni Morrison; Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko; An oral history (Testimonio) / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso; In search of our mother's gardens / Alice Walker; Fire and ice (Some thoughts on property, appearance, and the language of lawmakers) / Patricia J. Williams; Letter to Ma / Merle Woo; Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman / Mitsuye Yamada; Something sacred going on out there: Myth and vision in American Indian Literature / Paula Gunn Allen; La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldua; The highs and lows of Black feminist criticism / Barbara Christian; Defining Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins; Defining Asian American realities through literature / Elaine H. Kim; The dilemma of the modern Chicana artist and critic / Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo; Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and loving perception / Maria Lugones; The politics of poetics: Or, What am I, a critic, doing in this text anyhow? / Tey Diana Rebolledo; The truth that never hurts: Black lesbians in fiction in the 1980's / Barbara Smith; Black feminist theory and the representation of the "Other" / Valerie Smith.

Notes:

"Cover art: E. H. Sorrells-Adewale."

"'The Woman That I Am' is a collection of poetry, short stories, plays, cultural narratives, and critical perspectives by contemporary American women of color - women who are writing about their lives and their experiences right now ... Four ethnicities are represented in this book: Native American, African American, Latina American, and Asian American."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0312100124 :

9780312100124

0312079567

9780312079567

OCLC:

28411683