Shaping memories : reflections of African American women writers /
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| Imprint: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009. |
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| Description: | xvi, 245 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7800441 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Women in Community
- A Distant Star Called Possibility Wintergreen
- Wintergreen and Alaga Syrup A Writer's Reflections on Memory, Writing, and Place
- From ""Shaping the World of My Art""
- Outside of Dreams
- Negotiating the Academy
- The Case of the Reluctant Reader She Who Reads Last
- Parting the Blue Miasma
- New Kid on the Block
- Obstacles or Opportunities The Wisdom to Know the Difference
- The Faith Walk of Writing Connecting Head and Heart
- Silence...A Dangerous Luxury
- On My Return from Exile
- Of History and Healing
- The Conscientious Outsider
- The Mother's Board
- Spirit Houses
- My Father's Passage
- A Blessed Life
- A Birth and a Death, or Everything Important Happens on Monday
- Ambrosia
- What Roots Us
- Cotton Pickin' Authority
- The First Time I Saw Big Daddy Grinning
- On Gardening, or A Love Supreme
- A Very Good Year
- A Sanctuary of Words
- Bury the Thought
- The Death of the Mother
- A Remembrance
- The Night I Stopped Singing like Billie Holiday
- Afterword: Rites, Rituals, and Creative Ceremonies A Social History of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective
- Poetry Reading A Coda
- Contributors
