Memory of kin : stories about family by black writers / edited, with an introduction and commentary by Mary Helen Washington.
Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century's leading black authors that oblige the reader to observe the complexities...
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New York :
Doubleday,
1991.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The extended family. The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
- Just like a tree / Ernest J. Gaines.
- Wives and husbands. The wedding / June Jordan
- The poker party / William Melvin Kelley
- Roselily / Alice Walker
- The wife of his youth ; Po' Sandy / Charles Chesnutt.
- Mothers and daughters. Momma / Paulette Childress White
- Black mother woman / Audre Lorde
- Mother / Andrea Lee
- The circling hand / Jamaica Kincaid
- Getting the facts of life / Paulette Childress White.
- Fathers and daughters. Forgiving my father / Lucille Clifton
- New African / Andrea Lee.
- Mothers and sons. Mother to son / Langston Hughes
- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines.
- Fathers and sons. Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
- Forty in the shade / John McCluskey, Jr.
- A long day in November / Ernest J. Gaines.
- Sisters. The house slave / Rita Dove
- Little brother / John Edgar Wideman
- Adventures of the Dread sisters / Alexis De Veaux.
- Brothers. My brother is homemade / Sam Cornish
- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin.
- Aunts and uncles. The house on Norwood / Toi Derricotte
- Aunt Carrie / Rita Dove
- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara.
- Grandparents. My Grandfather walks in the woods / Marilyn Waniek
- The weakness / Toi Derricotte
- To Da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall
- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher.