Originally published: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-340) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. The most famous person nobody knows -- The life and political times of Margaret Walker -- I want to write, I want to write the songs of my people -- The emergence of Margaret Walker / Maryemma Graham -- Black women writers at work : an interview with Margaret Walker / Claudia Tate -- Margaret Walker : Black woman writer of the south / Joyce Pettis -- Down from the mountaintop / Melissa Walker -- The intricate design of Margaret Walker's Humanism : revolution, vision, history / Minrose C. Gwin -- From for my people to this is my century : the poetry of Margaret Walker -- The Etched flame of Margaret Walker : literary and Biblical re-Creation in southern history / R. Baxter Miller -- Fields watered with blood : myth and ritual in the poetry of Margaret Walker / Eugenia Collier -- Bolder measures crashing through : Margaret Walker's poem of the century / Eleanor Traylor -- Folkloric elements in Margaret Walker's poetry / B. Dilla Buckner -- Performing community : Margaret Walker's use of poetic Folk voice / Tomeiko R. Ashford -- The south in Margaret Walker's poetry : harbor and sorrow home / Ekaterini Georgoudaki -- For my people : notes on visual memory and interpretation / Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Poet of history, poet of vision : a review of This Is My Century / Florence Howe -- Jubilee : folklore, history, and Vyry's voice. Music as theme : the blues mode in the works of Margaret Walker / Eleanor Traylor -- Oh freedom : women and history in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Phyllis R. Klotman -- Black folk elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / James E. Spears -- From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen : the Black female folk tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Charlotte Goodman -- Rumblings in folk traditions served southern style / Jacqueline Miller Carmichael -- The use of spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Hiroko Sato -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative / Amy Levin -- Jubilee, or setting the record straight / Esim Erdim -- The Black woman as mulatto : a personal response to the character of Vyry / Michelle Cliff -- Epilogue: To capture a vision fair : Margaret Walker and the predicament of the African American woman intellectual / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Selected bibliography of works by and about Margaret Walker.
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