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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Other Authors: Washington, Mary Helen.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 1991.
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.