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The Unforgetting heart : an anthology of short stories by African American women, 1859-1993 / edited by Asha Kanwar.
Record details
- ISBN: 1879960311 (alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 1879960303 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
- Physical Description: xxi, 292, [293-295] p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, c1993.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293-295]). |
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| Subject: | Short stories, American > African American authors. Short stories, American > Women authors. Women > United States > Fiction. African American women > Fiction. African Americans > Fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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The Unforgetting Heart : An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women, 1859-1992
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The Unforgetting Heart : An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women, 1859-1992
"This anthology will be a rewarding addition for women's studiesA A collections, as a resource for new discoveries and old favorites."- Booklist "Asha Kanwar has collected some of the best Black female writers of all time, adding to that voices buried under years of neglect. All of them shimmer with a new radiance, and an immediate intimacya?|a rare jewel. Its time has come indeed." -Seattle Gay News This collection of brings together an unprecedented range of beautifully crafted short stories by women that span a century and a half of African American literary tradition. Editor Asha Kanwar's introduction provides the historical background and context for the selection of stories by authors as varied as Alice Dunbar Nelson, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, and Wanda Coleman. The writers included here, both the famous and the less well-known, together represent the remarkable diversity of African American women's writing across class, culture and time.
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