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Title:

Centers of the self : stories by black American women from the nineteenth century to the present / edited and with an introduction by Judith A. Hamer and Martin J. Hamer.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Hill and Wang,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

x, 355 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Afro-American women--Fiction.--Fiction.
Afro-Americans--Fiction.--Fiction.
Short stories, American--Afro-American authors.
Short stories, American--Women authors.

Other Authors:

Hamer, Judith A.
Hamer, Martin J.

Contents:

Introduction -- The two offers / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- After many days: a Christmas story / Fannie Barrier Williams -- The stones of the village / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Goldie / Angelina Weld Grimke -- One boy's story / Marita Bonner -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- The typewriter / Dorothy West -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Miss Muriel / Ann Petry -- Key to the city / Diane Oliver -- To Da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker -- Tell Martha not to moan / Sherley Anne Williams -- Marigolds / Eugenia W. Collier -- After Saturday night comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez -- My Man Bovanne / Toni Cade Bambara -- Jevata / Gayl Jones -- Sister Detroit / Colleen McElroy -- Comin to terms / Ntozake Shange -- Requiem for Willie Lee / Frenchy Hodges -- Damon and Vandalia / Rita Dove -- The world of Rosie Polk / Ann Allen Shockley -- Hoodoo / Connie Porter -- Willie Bea and Jaybird / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid.

ISBN:

9780809015764
0809015765

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30110636

LCCN:

94014724

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)