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Shaking the tree : a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women / edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxi, 292 p. : ports. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 039305067X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.6080809287/08996073 21
LOC classification:
  • PS647.A35 S53 2003
Contents:
"Home" from The prisoner's wife / asha bandele -- From Black ice / Lorene Cary -- From Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- From Willow weep for me: a black woman's journey through depression / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah -- "Children of the sea" from Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat -- "Beginning again" from An American story / Debra J. Dickerson -- "Wonderful teen" from Don't erase me / Carolyn Ferrell -- "Markers" from Break any woman down / Dana Johnson -- "It's racier in the Bahamas" from Bulletproof diva: tales of race, sex, and hair / Lisa Jones -- From The serpent's gift / Helen Elaine Lee -- "July 1978" from The book of Sarahs: a family in parts / Catherine E. McKinley -- "What's love got to do with it?" from Every good-bye ain't gone / Itabari Njeri -- "The stranger" / ZZ Packer -- "April 1974 - Johnson Creek" from Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry -- From The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- "Leila, 1998" from Song of the water saints / Nelly Rosario -- "Body of Luce Rivera" from Caucasia / Danzy Senna -- "Wall of pain" from The fall of Rome / Martha Southgate -- From Girl in the mirror: three generations of black women in motion / Natasha Tarpley -- "Nepenthe" from Glow in the dark / Lisa Teasley -- "Larchmont" from Black, white, and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self / Rebecca Walker -- "On our way to beautiful" from On our way to beautiful / Yolanda Young -- "Lover" from Black girl in Paris / Shay Youngblood
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 818.608 S527 Available 33111004215378
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Showcasing the newest generation of black women writers, including ZZ Packer, Edwidge Danticat, and Shay Youngblood, Shaking the Tree gathers twenty-three voices that came of age in the wake of the civil rights, black arts, gay rights, and feminist movements. Their literature embodies the tragedies and triumphs of contemporary black women in their struggle to negotiate a sense of individual identity beyond the limited scope of gender and race.



Shaking the Tree offers a panorama of both fiction and memoir, revealing perspectives as diverse as they are dynamic: asha bandele recounts how she fell in love with a prisoner charged with murder; Rebecca Walker explores a childhood split between disparate racial and cultural landscapes; ZZ Packer remembers her near-abduction from summer camp at a time when local black children were being found murdered; Danzy Senna and Carolyn Ferrell tell tales about being young and biracial in a society that sees only in black and white.



This anthology is as urgent as it is historical--these voices are the future of American literature.

"Home" from The prisoner's wife / asha bandele -- From Black ice / Lorene Cary -- From Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- From Willow weep for me: a black woman's journey through depression / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah -- "Children of the sea" from Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat -- "Beginning again" from An American story / Debra J. Dickerson -- "Wonderful teen" from Don't erase me / Carolyn Ferrell -- "Markers" from Break any woman down / Dana Johnson -- "It's racier in the Bahamas" from Bulletproof diva: tales of race, sex, and hair / Lisa Jones -- From The serpent's gift / Helen Elaine Lee -- "July 1978" from The book of Sarahs: a family in parts / Catherine E. McKinley -- "What's love got to do with it?" from Every good-bye ain't gone / Itabari Njeri -- "The stranger" / ZZ Packer -- "April 1974 - Johnson Creek" from Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry -- From The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- "Leila, 1998" from Song of the water saints / Nelly Rosario -- "Body of Luce Rivera" from Caucasia / Danzy Senna -- "Wall of pain" from The fall of Rome / Martha Southgate -- From Girl in the mirror: three generations of black women in motion / Natasha Tarpley -- "Nepenthe" from Glow in the dark / Lisa Teasley -- "Larchmont" from Black, white, and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self / Rebecca Walker -- "On our way to beautiful" from On our way to beautiful / Yolanda Young -- "Lover" from Black girl in Paris / Shay Youngblood

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