| Description |
xv, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264). |
| Contents |
Threading the needle : beginnings. Newborn / Valerie Jean -- Birth of the Black life / Nubia Kai -- A poem for my mother, Nubia Kai Al-Nura Salaam / Malia Kai -- Insomniac / Esperanza Cintròn -- Baby Faith / Michele Wallace -- Closets and keepsakes / Willi Coleman -- Dear Mama / Sonia Sanchez -- Thursday ladies / Karla F.C. Holloway -- Images of motherhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Lucie Fultz -- Meaning of motherhood in Black culture and Black mother-daughter relationships / Patricia Hill Collins. |
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Piecing blocks : identities. Power of names / Irma McClaurin -- Toughing/not touching : my mother / Toi Derricotte -- On the spirit of Mildred Jordan / June Jordan -- Mom de plume / SDiane Bogus -- Lessons / Pearl Cleage -- Mothers of mind / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Black mothers and daughters : traditional and new perspectives / Gloria I. Joseph. |
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Stitching memories : herstories. Something domestic / Dolores Kendrick -- Mother, in sunlight / Louise Robinson-Boardley -- Taste of mother love / Gloria T. Hull -- Old photo from a family album : 1915 / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- Ah, Momma / June Jordan -- Precious memories / Belvie Rooks -- 'Hush, Mama's gotta go bye-bye' / Renita Weems -- Smoothing the tucks in father's linen : the women of Cedar Hill / Miriam DeCosta-Willis. |
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Fraying edges : tensions. Beatrice's neck / Ann T. Greene -- Successions / Valerie Jean -- Stepmother / Irma McClaurin -- Reflections of a 'good' daughter / Bell Hooks -- A daughter survives incest : a retrospective analysis / Linda H. Hollies -- Turbulence and tenderness : mothers, daughters, and "othermothers" in Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones / Rosalie Riegle Troester. |
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Binding the quilt : generations. Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Family tree / Kate Rushin -- At midday / Naomi Long Madgett -- Double exposure / Saundra Sharp -- Four women / Esperanza Cintròn -- To my daughters / Saundra Murray Nettles -- Dyad/triad / Annette Jones White -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker. |
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Loosening the threads : separations. Lost daughter / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- 'Mawu' / Audre Lorde -- Prose poem : portrait / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- On the dark and moon-less night / Judy Scales-Trent -- Connected to Mama's spirit / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- To my mother's vision / SDiane Bogus -- Last Christmas gift from a mother / Lois F. Lyles. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. Judith L. Johnston. |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- Literary collections.
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Mothers and daughters. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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Mothers and daughters -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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History. |
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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. |
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American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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African American women in literature.
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African American women in literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Mothers and daughters in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Bell-Scott, Patricia.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Double stitch. Boston : Beacon Press, c1991 (OCoLC)555370511 |
| ISBN |
0807009105 |
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9780807009109 |
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