Shaping memories : reflections of African American women writers /

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Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13538586
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Other authors / contributors:Gabbin, Joanne V., editor
Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective.
ISBN:9781604734713
160473471X
1282484761
9781282484764
9781604732740
1604732741
Notes:"The essayists featured here are members of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective"--Introduction
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Summary:Shaping Memories offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With contributions from such figures as novelist Paule Marshall, folklorist Daryl Cumber Dance, poets Mari Evans and Camille Dungy, essayist Ethel Morgan Smith, and scholar Maryemma Graham, the anthology provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers. Editor Joanne Veal Gabbin offers an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature.
Other form:Print version: Shaping memories. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009 9781604732740