
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions
Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
Toni Cade Bambara(Author)
Random House Inc (Publisher)
Published on 26. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-679-77407-5 (ISBN)
Description
Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. It is a treasure trove not only for those familiar with Bambara's work, but for a new generation of readers who will recognize her contribution to contemporary American letters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
388 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-679-77407-5 (9780679774075)
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08/2009
Vintage
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Person
On December 9, 1995, Toni Cade Bambara died of cancer at the age of 56. In its obituary of her, The New York Times called Bambara, "a major contributor to the emerging genre of black women's literature."
Content
Preface by Toni Morrison
FICTION
Going Critical
Madame Bai and the Taking of Stone Mountain
Baby’s Breath
The War of the Wall
Ice
Luther on Sweet Auburn
ESSAYS AND CONVERSATIONS
Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye
Language and the Writer
Deep Sight and Rescue Missions
School Daze
How She Came by Her Name
The Education of a Storyteller
FICTION
Going Critical
Madame Bai and the Taking of Stone Mountain
Baby’s Breath
The War of the Wall
Ice
Luther on Sweet Auburn
ESSAYS AND CONVERSATIONS
Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye
Language and the Writer
Deep Sight and Rescue Missions
School Daze
How She Came by Her Name
The Education of a Storyteller