Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions
Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
Published on 26. August 2009
272 pages
978-0-307-55556-4 (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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01/1999
Random House Inc
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Toni Cade Bambara | Toni C. Bambra
Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions
Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
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11/1996
Pantheon Books
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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
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 - Fiction
- Chapter 1 - Going Critical
- Chapter 2 - Madame Bai and The Taking of Stone Mountain
- Chapter 3 - Baby's Breath
- Chapter 4 - The War of The Wall
- Chapter 5 - Ice
- Chapter 6 - Luther on Sweet Auburn
- Part 2 - Essays and Conversations
- Chapter 7 - Reading The Signs, Empowering The Eye
- Chapter 8 - Language and the Writer
- Chapter 9 - Deep Sight and Rescue Missions
- Chapter 10 - School Daze
- Chapter 11 - How She Came by Her Name
- Chapter 12 - The Education of a Storyteller
- Copyright
