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Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds

Stories by and about Black Women

Edited by Mary Helen Washington

Edited by Mary Helen Washington

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Dec 01, 1989 | ISBN 9780385260152

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About Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds

This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections.  The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.



"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." —The New York Times Book Review

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Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black… More about Mary Helen Washington

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

Paperback | $23.00
Published by Anchor
Dec 01, 1989 | 416 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780385260152

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Table Of Contents

Re(Visions): Black Women Writers—Their Texts, Their Readers, Their Critics

Jean Wheeler Smith
Frankie Mae

Paulette Childress White
Alice
The Bird Cage

Toni Morrison
Seemothermotherisverynice

Paule Marshall
Reena

Gwendolyn Books
If You’re Light and Have Long Hair
At the Burns-Coopers’

Gayl Jones
Asylum
Jevata

Louise Meriwether
A Happening in Barbados

Alexis DeVaux
The Riddles of Egypt Brownstone
Remember Him a Outlaw

Frency Hodges
Requiem for Willie Lee

Sherely Anne Williams
Meditaions on History

Alice Walker
A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring
Everyday Use
Advancing Luna and Ida B. Wells

Ntozake Shange
comin to terms
aw, babee, you so pretty

Toni Cade Bambara
Medley
Witchbird

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