Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers
Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers
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Abstract
This book offers short chapters by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With chapters by such figures as novelist Paule Marshall, folklorist Daryl Cumber Dance, poets Mari Evans and Camille Dungy, essayist Ethel Morgan Smith, and scholar Maryemma Graham, the anthology provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers. The book includes an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature in particular. Each chapter includes a headnote summarizing the writer’s career and aesthetic development. In their pieces these women negotiate educational institutions and societal restrictions and find their voices despite racism, sexism, and religious chauvinism. They offer strong testimony to the power of words to heal, transform, and renew.
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Front Matter
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Women in Community
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Negotiating the Academy
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Silence … A Dangerous Luxury
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Spirit Houses
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What Roots Us
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A Sanctuary of Words
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Bury the Thought
Karla FC Holloway
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The Death of the Mother
Eugenia Collier
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A Remembrance
Sonia Sanchez
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The Night I Stopped Singing like Billie Holiday
Toi Derricotte
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Afterword: Rites, Rituals, and Creative Ceremonies: A Social History of the Wintergreen Women Writers’ Collective
Sandra Y. Govan
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Poetry Reading: A Coda
Opal Moore
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Bury the Thought
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End Matter
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