Piece of my heart : a lesbian of colour anthology / anthologized by Makeda Silvera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silvera, Makeda, 1955- editor.

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

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