| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
418 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
St. Stephen: A passion play / Janus Adams -- Tanka / Fatimah Afif -- For ''Mamie'' / Fayola Kamaria Ama -- There is no title: only echoes; -- The promise; -- Story for the remainder / Johari M. Amini -- The reunion / Maya Angelou -- Madame Bai and the taking of stone mountain / Toni Cade Bambara -- Soweto song; Haiti; I wanna make freedom; Sortin-out / Amina Baraka -- Pretending; Marta; The dancer / Brenda Connor-Bey -- Primer for blacks; To those of my sisters who kept their naturals; Requiem before revival / Gwendolyn Brooks -- For her; My dream about being white; Morning mirror / Lucille Clifton -- Rape; There it is; You know; Big fine woman from Ruleville; For the brave young students in Soweto / Jayne Cortez -- . . . And then she said; French doors: a vignette; The woman who lives in the botanical gardens / Alexis De Veaux -- The welcome / Y. W. Easton -- I am a black woman; Where have you gone; Speak the truth to the people; early in the mornin / Mari Evans -- Prince Harlem / Lois Elaine Griffith -- Fragments: Mousetrap; Definition; The takers / Nikki Grimes -- Skillet bond / Vértàmàè Smart-Gròsvènòr -- Portrait of a woman artist; Harlem/soweto; Letter to my father . . . a solidarity long overdue / Safiya Henderson -- Lament; August; 1 / Akua Lezli Hope -- Reports; A using; Solution #9 / Mariah Britton Howard -- Paraphernaila for a suicide: a revelation of life / Lateifa-Ramona Lahleet Hyman -- / Loomit; Friday the 13th Candlelight March / Adrienne Ingrum -- Murderous intent with a deadly weapon; Dialouge; Struggle of class / Rashidah Ismaili -- For the count; A poem for all the mens in the world; On learning; My last feeling this way poem / Mae Jackson -- Ensinanca / Gayl Jones -- Sweet otis suite / Anasa Jordan -- On the real world: mediatation #1; Blue ribbons for the baby girl; A last dialog on the left; Poem towards a final solution / June Jordan -- I am the weaver; On being high; In the middle; A name change / Abbey Lincoln (Aminata Moseka) -- Need: A chorale of black women's voices / Audre Lorde -- Enough; It's all in the name; Running to gone; For us; Tokens for "t" / Esther Louise -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Lament; Tree women quest for sun . . . / Malkia M'buzi -- A love poem to an African freedom fighter; Untitled; New chapters for our history / Rosemari Mealy -- A man called Jethro / Louise Meriwether -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- Sugarman; When i rite; Inflation / Margaret Porter -- Transcedental blues; The lady and the tramp / Aishah Rahman -- From being my own woman / Faith Ringgold -- Mannessahs; Touch: translation poem 4; Touch: poem 5; Aunt Dolly; Folk; Wimmin / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Waiting for her man too long / Sandra Rogers -- A poem for Sterling Brown; Just don't never give up on love; Present; Kwa mama zetu waliotuzaa / Sonia Sanchez -- Minority; Equal opportunity; Linseed oil and dreams / Judy Dothard Simmons -- The fabulous world of Toni Morrison:Tar Baby / Eleanor W. Traylor -- I said to poetry; Family of; Each one, pull one; I'm really very fond; Representing the universe / Alice Walker -- My truth and my flame; This is my century. . .Black synthesis of time; Five black men . . .; I hear a rumbling . . .; Fanfare, coda, and finale / Margaret Walker -- The envelope / Michele Wallace -- Asylum; For our life is a matter of faith; I am not my sister's keeper: I am my sister / Regina Williams -- From ''the iconography of childhood''; You were never miss brown to me; A record for my friends; This city-light; The wishon line / Sherley Anne Williams -- Refugee mother; Our children are our children / Geraldine L. Wilson -- Birds of paradise; Long road rhythm; What we know / Nzadi Zimele-Keita (Michelle McMichael). |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African American women -- Literary collections.
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African American women. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
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Baraka, Amina.
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| Added Title |
Confirmation, an anthology of African American women |
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Confirmation, an anthology of African American women.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Confirmation, an anthology of AfricanAmerican women. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, 1983 (OCoLC)647150950 |
| ISBN |
0688015808 : $17.95 |
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9780688015800 |
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0688015824 paperback |
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9780688015824 paperback |
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