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Mending the world : stories of family by contemporary Black writers

Title
  1. Mending the world : stories of family by contemporary Black writers / edited by Rosemarie Robotham.
Published by
  1. New York : BasicCivitas Books, ©2003.

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Additional authors
  1. Robotham, Rosemarie.
Description
  1. xxiii, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. A celebration of modern black family life, featuring fiction, memoir, and poetry, by African American authors both new and renowned.
Subject
  1. American fiction > African American authors
  2. African American families > Fiction
  3. African Americans > Fiction
  4. Families, Black > Fiction
  5. Domestic fiction, American
  6. African American families
  7. African Americans
  8. Families, Black
  9. Erzählung
  10. Familie Motiv
  11. Schwarze
  12. USA
Genre/Form
  1. Fictional Work
  2. Fiction.
  3. Romans.
  4. Anthologie.
  5. Geschichte 1980-2002.
Contents
  1. Preface: Great expectations / Maya Angelou -- Foreword: Reflections on family / Pearl Cleage -- Introduction: Making up the truth / Rosemarie Robotham -- First light. Rachel / Tina McElroy Ansa ; The circling hand / Jamaica Kincaid ; The driving lesson / Gerald Early ; Holy Cross Hospital / Toi Derricotte ; Bright Thursdays / Olive Senior ; The myth of music / Rachel M. Harper -- Myth making. Ocean / Shay Youngblood ; The book of the dead / Edwidge Danticat ; Show business / Martha Southgate ; A son in shadow / Fred D'Aguiar ; On earth / Jacqueline Woodson ; Three sonnets for Mister Kent / Kendel Hippolyte -- The shifting self. The drill / Breena Clarke ; Dear Aunt Nanadine / Alexis De Veaux ; Who shot Johnny? / Debra Dickerson ; Going home / Janus Adams ; My daughter, once removed / William Jelani Cobb ; The feather / April Reynolds -- A taste of Eden. Sleeper's wake / Paule Marshall ; Aunt Delia / Valerie Wilson Wesley ; Uncle Raymond / Nelson Eubanks ; Brothers and sisters around the world / Andrea Lee ; China / Charles Johnson ; Will & testament / Malaika Adero -- Mending the world. Momma / Paulette Childress White ; Daddy / James McBride ; Counting breaths / Rosemarie Robotham ; The two of us / Alice Walker ; The good daughter / Rebecca Walker ; The box.
  2. / Diane McKinney-Whetstone -- Permissions -- Bibliography -- Biographical notes.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-290).