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Title Shaping memories : reflections of African American women writers / edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "The essayists featured here are members of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective"--Introduction
Contents A distant star called possibility : Wintergreen / Nikki Giovanni -- Wintergreen and alaga syrup : a writer's reflections on memory, writing, and place / Carmen R. Gillespie -- From "Shaping the world of my art" / Paule Marshall -- Outside of dreams / Ethel Morgan Smith -- Case of the reluctant reader : she who reads last-- / Sandra Y. Govan -- Parting the blue miasma / Kendra Hamilton -- New kid on the block / Joanne Veal Gabbin -- Obstacles or opportunities : the wisdom to know the difference / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Faith walk of writing : connecting head and heart / Marilyn Sanders Mobley -- On my return from exile / Linda Williamson Nelson -- Of history and healing / Janus Adams -- Conscientious outsider / Camille Dungy -- Mother's board / Opal Moore -- My father's passage / Mari Evans -- A blessed life / Maryemma Graham -- A birth and a death, or Everything important happens on Monday / Daryl Cumber Dance -- Ambrosia / Nikky Finney -- Cotton pickin' authority / Trudier Harris -- First time I saw Big Daddy grinning / Lovalerie King -- On gardening, or A love supreme / Joyce Pettis -- A very good year / Hermine Pinson -- Bury the thought / Karla FC Holloway -- Death of the mother / Eugenia Collier -- A remembrance / Sonia Sanchez -- Night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday / Toi Derricotte -- Afterword: Rites, rituals, and creative ceremonies : a social history of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective / Sandra Y. Govan -- Poetry reading : a coda / Opal Moore.
Summary Shaping Memories offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With contributions from 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. Editor Joanne Veal Gabbin offers an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature.
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Subject African American women authors -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American women authors.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors.
Authorship.
authorship.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Authorship.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- African American.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Gabbin, Joanne V., editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective.
Other Form: Print version: Shaping memories. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009 9781604732740 (DLC) 2008055184 (OCoLC)297529807
ISBN 9781604734713 (electronic book)
160473471X (electronic book)
1282484761
9781282484764
9781604732740 (alkaline paper)
1604732741 (alkaline paper)