Black-eyed Susans/Midnight birds : stories by and about Black women / [electronic resource] edited and with an introduction by Mary Helen Washington. - New York : Anchor Books, c1990. - xii, 398 p. ; 21 cm.

"Selected works of fiction by Afro-American women": p. 395-395.

Includes bibliographies.

Re(Visions): Black women writers-their texts, their readers, their critics -- Frankie Mae / Jean Wheeler Smith -- Alice; Bird cage / Paulette Childress White -- Seemothermotherisverynice / Toni Morrison -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- If you're light and have long hair; At the Burns-Coopers' / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Asylum; Jevata / Gayl Jones -- Happening in Barbados / Louise Meriwether -- Riddles of Egypt Brownstone; Remember him a outlaw / Alexis DeVeaux -- Requiem for Willie Lee / Frenchy Hodges -- Meditations on history / Sherley Anne Williams -- Sudden trip home in the spring; Everyday use; Advancing Luna and Ida B. Wells / Alice Walker -- Comin to terms; Aw, babee, you so pretty / Ntozake Shange -- Medley; Witchbird / Toni Cade Bambara.

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Short stories, American.
American fiction--African American authors.
American fiction--Women authors.
African American women--Fiction.
Nouvelles américaines--Auteurs noirs américains.
Nouvelles américaines--Femmes écrivains.

PS647.A35 / B57 1990

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