Centers of the self : stories by black American women from the nineteenth century to the present / edited and with an introduction by Judith A. Hamer and Martin J. Hamer.
Twenty-seven stories by black American women. They write on being abandoned by men, on maintaining spiritual strength and on the search for an identity. With biographies of the writers.
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- The two offers / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- After many day : a Christmas story / Fannie Barrier Williams
- The stones of the village / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Goldie / Angelina Weld Grimke
- One boy's story / Marita Bonner
- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen
- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston
- The typewriter / Dorothy West
- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman
- Miss Muriel / Ann Petry
- Key to the city / Diane Oliver
- To Da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall
- To hell with dying / Alice Walker
- Tell Martha not to moan / Sherley Anne Williams
- Marigolds / Eugenia W. Collier
- After Saturday night comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez
- My Man Bovanne / Toni Cade Bambara
- Jevata / Gayl Jones
- Sister Detroit / Colleen McElroy
- Comin to terms / Ntozake Shange
- Requiem for Willie Lee / Frenchy Hodges
- Damon and Vandalia / Rita Dove
- The world of Rosie Polk / Ann Allen Shockley
- Hoodoo / Connie Porter
- Willie Bea and Jaybird / Tina McElroy Ansa
- Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid.