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Piece of my heart : a lesbian of colour anthology / anthologized by Makeda Silvera.
LIBRA - Rare PR9194.5.L47 P532 1991 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbians' writings.
- African American lesbians--Literary collections.
- African American lesbians.
- Homosexuality.
- Literature.
- Women.
- Minority Groups.
- Lesbianism.
- Medical Subjects:
- Homosexuality.
- Literature.
- Women.
- Minority Groups.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 393 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Sister Vision, 1991.
- Summary:
- Uncompromising in its honesty, at times humorous, angry, confrontational, and erotic, Piece of My Heart celebrates the lives of women both out and coming out.
- Contents:
- Coming out, finding home
- Memories, distances, exile
- Sister to sister
- We will not be invisible
- Pain and betrayal
- Cravings
- The wanting and the passion
- Coming into our own power.
- Notes:
- "Cover Painting: Rachel Henriques."
- "The work within these pages represent a diversity of voices, often reflecting the lives the we lead, our reality, and the places we have been as lesbians and as women of colour, living and struggling in a racist, woman hating world."--Introduction.
- ALA Stonewall Book Award Finalist: Literature (1992)
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has Erratum for pages 376-378 laid in.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Piece of my heart.
- ISBN:
- 0920813658
- 9780920813652
- OCLC:
- 24545009
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