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Mending the world : stories of family by contemporary Black writers /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Robotham, Rosemarie, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2003.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors.
African American families > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Families, Black > Fiction.
Domestic fiction, American.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Great expectations / Maya Angelou
  • Foreword: Reflections on family / Pearl Cleage
  • Introduction: Making up the truth / Rosemarie Robotham
  • First light.
  • Rachel
  • / Tina McElroy Ansa ; The
  • circling hand
  • / Jamaica Kincaid ; The
  • driving lesson
  • / Gerald Early ;
  • Holy Cross Hospital
  • / Toi Derricotte ;
  • Bright Thursdays
  • / Olive Senior ; The
  • myth of music
  • / Rachel M. Harper
  • Myth making.
  • Ocean
  • / Shay Youngblood ; The
  • book of the dead
  • / Edwidge Danticat ;
  • Show business
  • / Martha Southgate ; A
  • son in shadow
  • / Fred D'Aguiar ;
  • On earth
  • / Jacqueline Woodson ;
  • Three sonnets for Mister Kent
  • / Kendel Hippolyte
  • The shifting self.
  • The drill
  • / Breena Clarke ;
  • Dear Aunt Nanadine
  • / Alexis De Veaux ;
  • Who shot Johnny?
  • / Debra Dickerson ;
  • Going home
  • / Janus Adams ;
  • My daughter, once removed
  • / William Jelani Cobb ; The
  • feather
  • / April Reynolds
  • A taste of Eden.
  • Sleeper's wake
  • / Paule Marshall ;
  • Aunt Delia
  • / Valerie Wilson Wesley ;
  • Uncle Raymond
  • / Nelson Eubanks ;
  • Brothers and sisters around the world
  • / Andrea Lee ;
  • China
  • / Charles Johnson ;
  • Will & testament
  • / Malaika Adero
  • Mending the world.
  • Momma
  • / Paulette Childress White ;
  • Daddy
  • / James McBride ;
  • Counting breaths
  • / Rosemarie Robotham ; The
  • two of us
  • / Alice Walker ; The
  • good daughter
  • / Rebecca Walker ; The
  • box
  • / Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  • Permissions
  • Bibliography
  • Biographical notes.

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