Maud Martha

by Brooks, Gwendolyn

• ISBN13: 9780883780619
• ISBN10: 0883780615
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: THIRD WORLD PRESS

Summary

September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Initially entitled American Family Brown the work would eventually come to symbolise some of Brooks' most provocative writing. In a novel that captures the essence of Black life, Brooks recognises the beauty and strength that lies within each of us.

Author Biography

Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer prize (1950), and she was the poetry consultant for the Library of Congress and the Poet Laureate of Illinois.

Table of Contents

1. description of Maud Martha	1	(3)
2. spring landscape: detail	4	(3)
3. love and gorillas	7	(4)
4. death of Grandmother	11	(5)
5. you're being so good, so kind	16	(3)
6. at the Regal	19	(4)
7. Tim	23	(5)
8. home	28	(5)
9. Helen	33	(7)
10. first beau	40	(2)
11. second beau	42	(5)
12. Maud Martha and New York	47	(5)
13. low yellow	52	(4)
14. everybody will be surprised	56	(4)
15. the kitchenette	60	(5)
16. the young couple at home	65	(4)
17. Maud Martha spares the mouse	69	(3)
18. we're the only colored people here	72	(7)
19. if you're light and have long hair	79	(10)
20. a birth	89	(11)
21. posts	100	(2)
22. tradition and Maud Martha	102	(6)
23. kitchenette folks	108	(19)
24. an encounter	127	(7)
25. the self-solace	134	(9)
26. Maud Martha's tumor	143	(3)
27. Paul in the 011 Club	146	(5)
28. brotherly love	151	(3)
29. millinery	154	(4)
30. at the Burns-Cooper's	158	(6)
31. on Thirty-fourth Street	164	(2)
32. Mother comes to call	166	(5)
33. tree leaves leaving trees	171	(6)
34. back from the wars!	177