Book
What moves at the margin : selected nonfiction
Publication Information
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.
Physical Description
xxvi, 215 p. : port. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Family and history
- A slow walk of trees (as grandmother would say), hopeless (as grandfather would say)
- She and me
- What the black woman thinks about women's lib
- A knowing so deep
- Behind the making of The black book
- Rediscovering black history
- Rootedness: the ancestor as foundation
- The site of memory
- Writers and writing
- On behalf of Henry Dumas
- Preface to Deep sightings and rescue missions by Toni Cade Bambara
- James Baldwin: his voice remembered; life in his language
- Speaking of Reynolds price
- To be a black woman: review of Portraits in fact and fiction
- The family came first: review of Labor of love, labor of sorrow
- Toni Morrison on a book she loves: Gayl Jones's Corregidora
- Going home with bitterness and joy: review of South to a very old place by Albert Murray
- On The radiance of the king by Camara Laye
- Foreword to The Harlem book of the dead
- Foreword to Writing red: an anthology of American women writers, 1930-1940
- The fisherwoman: Introduction to A kind of rapture: photographs
- Politics and society
- On the backs of blacks
- The talk of the town
- The dead of September 11
- For a heroic writers movement
- Remarks given at the Howard University Charter Day convocation
- The future of time: literature and diminished expectations
- The dancing mind
- How can values be taught in the university
- The Nobel lecture in literature.
Subjects
- American literature > African American women authors.
- American literature > African American authors.
- American literature > Women authors.
- African Americans > Literary collections.
- African American women > Literary collections.
- Women > Literary collections.
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
- Literature > History and criticism.