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Title:

Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women / [edited by] Patricia Bell-Scott.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

429 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women.
African American women--Biography.
African American women--Diaries.
Women, Black--Caribbean Area--Biography.
Women, Black--Caribbean Area--Diaries.
Women, Black--Biography.
Women, Black--Diaries.
Egodocumenten.
Negers.
Vrouwen.
Amerikaans.
Noires américaines.
Noires américaines--Biographies.
Noires américaines--Journaux intimes.
Noires--Caraïbes (Région)--Biographies.
Noires--Caraïbes (Région)--Journaux intimes.
Noires--Biographies.
Noires--Journaux intimes.

Other Authors:

Bell-Scott, Patricia.

Contents:

In her womb / Gwendolyn J. Dungy -- Chocolate tears and dreams / Evelyn C. Rosser -- Fire and snow / Deborah E. McDowell -- Myself / Tinuke Oluyomi -- Weeds / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- Arrival / Al -- At an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- A sistah outsider / Shamara Shantu Riley -- The sins of our fathers / Dakota Wells -- Oreo blues / Carole Stewart McDonnell -- A hair piece / Paulette M. Caldwell -- Black woman artist becoming / Bell Hooks -- The house that Jill built / Rita Dove -- Sometimes a poem is twenty years of memory / Carroll Parrott Blue / At Yaddo / Barbara Smith -- Not letting go of my anchor / Viki Radden -- Breaking the ties that bind me / Ann Lynn -- Setting relationship limits / Yin Quilter -- Golden boy / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- Three daughters / Dawn B. Bennett-Alexander.
Reflections of breaking glass / Sapphire -- Love in the time of AIDS / Ama R. Saran -- Writing, screaming, and healing / R.H. Douglas -- Holding on and remembering / Belvie Rooks -- Flashbacks and wounded children / Patricia Bell-Scott -- The cancer journals / Audre Lorde -- The years in between / Elaine Shelly -- A small place / Jamaica Kincaid -- And still rise / Rise Collins -- The Boston murders / Barbara Smith -- Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Milwaukee uncle -- Starting over / Miriam Decosta-Willis -- On turning fifty / Judy Scales-Trent -- Going through my changes / Lois Florence Lyles -- Jive talk and random thoughts / Pearl Cleage -- Looking / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- On "going home" / Deborah E. McDowell -- Natural monuments / Melina Brown -- Ubud, Bali / Alice Walker -- Standing alone with myself / Faith Adiele -- Differences and blurred vision / Tijuana Murray -- Bullet holes of resistance / Sonia Sanchez -- Beautifully ugly / Eleanor Smith -- Showing our true colors / Audre Lorde.

ISBN:

9780393035933
039303593X

LCCN:

93022731

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)