Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions

by BAMBARA, TONI CADE

• ISBN13: 9780679774075
• ISBN10: 0679774076
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-01-26
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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.

Author Biography

On December 9, 1995, Toni Cade Bambara died of cancer at the age of 56. In its obituary of her, <i>The New York Times</i> called Bambara, "a major contributor to the emerging genre of black women's literature."

Table of Contents

Preface
Fiction	p. 3
Going Critical	p. 5
Madame Bai and the Taking of Stone Mountain	p. 27
Baby's Breath	p. 45
The War of the Wall	p. 57
Ice	p. 67
Luther on Sweet Auburn	p. 78
Essays and Conversations	p. 87
Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye	p. 89
Language and the Writer	p. 139
Deep Sight and Rescue Missions	p. 146
School Daze	p. 179
How She Came by Her Name	p. 201
The Education of a Storyteller	p. 246
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