Centers of the self : stories by black American women from the nineteenth century to the present / [electronic resource]
edited and with an introduction by Judith A. Hamer and Martin J. Hamer.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Hill and Wang, 1994.
- x, 355 p. ; 23 cm.
The two offers / After many day : a Christmas story / The stones of the village / Mary Elizabeth / Goldie / One boy's story / Sanctuary / The gilded six-bits / The typewriter / See how they run / Miss Muriel / Key to the city / To Da-duh, in memoriam / To hell with dying / Tell Martha not to moan / Marigolds / After Saturday night comes Sunday / My Man Bovanne / Jevata / Sister Detroit / Comin to terms / Requiem for Willie Lee / Damon and Vandalia / The world of Rosie Polk / Hoodoo / Willie Bea and Jaybird / Song of Roland / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Fannie Barrier Williams -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Marita Bonner -- Nella Larsen -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Dorothy West -- Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Ann Petry -- Diane Oliver -- Paule Marshall -- Alice Walker -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Eugenia W. Collier -- Sonia Sanchez -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Gayl Jones -- Colleen McElroy -- Ntozake Shange -- Frenchy Hodges -- Rita Dove -- Ann Allen Shockley -- Connie Porter -- Tina McElroy Ansa -- Jamaica Kincaid.
Twenty-seven stories by black American women. They write on being abandoned by men, on maintaining spiritual strength and on the search for an identity. With biographies of the writers.
0809015765 9780809015764
94014724
Short stories, American. American fiction--African American authors. American fiction--Women authors. African American women--Fiction. African Americans--Fiction.