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Any Woman's Blues: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers

Any Woman's Blues: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers

Ntozake Shange
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These the old blues
and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do.
My life ain't done yet
Naw... My song ain't through.'
Any Woman's Blues, Sherley Anne Williams

* Toni Cade Bambara - "Witchbird", "Medley"
* Alexis DeVeaux - "The Riddles of Egypt Brownstones", "Remember Him a Outlaw"
* Frenchy Hodges - "Requiem for Willie Lee"
* Gayl Jones - "Asylum", "Jewata"
* Toni Morrison - "Eva Peace"
* Ntozake Shange - "aw, babee, you so pretty", "comin to terms"
* Alice Walker - "Laurel", "Advancing Luna and Ida B Wells"
* Paulette Childress White - "Alice", "The Bird Cage"
* Sherley Anne Williams - "Meditations on History"

This collection of short stories by nine Black women writers opens and extends the picture of Black women's lives as seen by themselves. The theme of these brilliant stories are universal: the search for self, for freedom, the dreams and realities of love and friendship, the prisons we make of race and sex. Timely, powerful and original, these stories are like the blues - they reach out to the world.
Language
English
Pages
274
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Virago Press
Release
May 28, 1986
ISBN
0860682048
ISBN 13
9780860682042

Any Woman's Blues: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers

Ntozake Shange
4.3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
These the old blues
and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do.
My life ain't done yet
Naw... My song ain't through.'
Any Woman's Blues, Sherley Anne Williams

* Toni Cade Bambara - "Witchbird", "Medley"
* Alexis DeVeaux - "The Riddles of Egypt Brownstones", "Remember Him a Outlaw"
* Frenchy Hodges - "Requiem for Willie Lee"
* Gayl Jones - "Asylum", "Jewata"
* Toni Morrison - "Eva Peace"
* Ntozake Shange - "aw, babee, you so pretty", "comin to terms"
* Alice Walker - "Laurel", "Advancing Luna and Ida B Wells"
* Paulette Childress White - "Alice", "The Bird Cage"
* Sherley Anne Williams - "Meditations on History"

This collection of short stories by nine Black women writers opens and extends the picture of Black women's lives as seen by themselves. The theme of these brilliant stories are universal: the search for self, for freedom, the dreams and realities of love and friendship, the prisons we make of race and sex. Timely, powerful and original, these stories are like the blues - they reach out to the world.
Language
English
Pages
274
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Virago Press
Release
May 28, 1986
ISBN
0860682048
ISBN 13
9780860682042

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