Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker /
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| Imprint: | Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | xxvii, 355 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4401107 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Most Famous Person Nobody Knows
- Pt. 1. The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker
- "I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People": The Emergence of Margaret Walker / Maryemma Graham
- Black Women Writers at Work: An Interview with Margaret Walker / Claudia Tate
- Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South / Joyce Pettis
- Down from the Mountaintop / Melissa Walker
- The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism": Revolution, Vision, History / Minrose C. Gwin
- Pt. 2. From For My People to This Is My Century: The Poetry of Margaret Walker
- The "Etched Flame" of Margaret Walker: Literary and Biblical Re-Creation in Southern History / R. Baxter Miller
- Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of Margaret Walker / Eugenia Collier
- "Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's Poem of the Century / Eleanor Traylor
- Folkloric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry / B. Dilla Buckner
- Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use of Poetic "Folk Voice" / Tomeiko R. Ashford
- The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home / Ekaterini Georgoudaki
- For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation / Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
- Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century / Florence Howe
- Pt. 3. Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice
- Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works of Margaret Walker / Eleanor Traylor
- "Oh Freedom": Women and History in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Phyllis R. Klotman
- Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / James E. Spears
- From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Charlotte Goodman
- "Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style / Jacqueline Miller Carmichael
- The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Hiroko Sato
- The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative / Amy Levin
- Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight / Esim Erdim
- The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response to the Character of Vyry / Michelle Cliff
- Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
- Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker.
