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Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)

Autor(a) de The Salt Eaters

22+ Works 1,479 Membros 13 Críticas 3 Favorited

About the Author

Toni Cade Bambara, a well-known teacher, writer, and social activist, was born on March 25, 1939, in New York. Bambara's mother was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and fostered creativity in her daughter. After graduating from Queens College in 1959, Bambara worked as a social investigator for mostrar mais the New York Department of Welfare. This experience influenced her writing and reflected her interest in the welfare of the black community. Bambara returned to school, receiving her MA from City College of New York in 1965, where she taught until 1969. It was in the 1970s that Bambara wrote her most important works, including Black Woman, Southern Black Utterances Today, and Gorilla My Love. Bambara's works are frequently written in black street dialect and are set in the rural South and the urban North. She is interested in the identities and experiences of the black community and writes about their effects as a society. She has also authored several film and television scripts. Bambara is a frequent guest lecturer, visiting professor, and community leader. She received an American Book Award in 1981 Her novel The Salt Eaters (1980) is centered around a healing event that coincides with a community festival in the fictional city of Claybourne, Georgia. The novel Those Bones Are Not My Child or If Blessings Come (title of the manuscript), was published posthumously in 1999. It deals with the disappearance and murder of forty black children in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981. It was called her masterpiece by Toni Morrison, who edited it and also gathered some of Bambara's short stories, essays, and interviews in the volume Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays & Conversations. (Vintage, 1996). Toni Cade Bambara was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1993 and died of it in 1995, at age 56. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) — Prefácio — 1,311 exemplares
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 1,130 exemplares
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Contribuidor — 411 exemplares
America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories (1993) — Contribuidor — 228 exemplares
We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Contribuidor — 193 exemplares
Black Women Writers at Work (1983) — Contribuidor — 123 exemplares
Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contribuidor — 115 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições95 exemplares
Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories of Friends and Enemies (1993) — Contribuidor — 94 exemplares
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation (1984) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1657) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (2006) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (1990) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
Black-Eyed Susans; Classic Stories By and About Black Women (1975) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Indiscreet Journeys: Stories of Women on the Road (1989) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings (1990) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The Experience of the American Woman (1978) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers (1980) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
The Random House Book of Sports Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
A Walk in My World: International Short Stories About Youth (1998) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women (1983) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories (2000) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Family: Stories from the Interior (1987) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Short Story & You (1987) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares

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Dense and chaotic, I don't think I absorbed all of what this book has to offer, but its offerings are so many and so deep that I know I'll be rereading and seeking again from it. Extraordinary insight into radical organizing and what it needs and takes from communities and individuals, its pitfalls, its best possibilities.
 
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localgayangel | 4 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
An interesting point of view and an enjoyable story read by Levar.
 
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Rekki | Mar 10, 2023 |
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Haunting, fictionalized account describing racist terror that stalked Atlanta during the early 1980's as over 40 African American children were tortured and murdered. Insightful into racial issues of a vibrant city with an active African American community." 2022 comment - surprise that so little is online about this book; not even list in the NY Public Library catalog! Will it be discovered an more appreciated later in time?
 
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MGADMJK | 1 outra crítica | Oct 25, 2022 |
I really wanted to love this book, but I can't force myself to read it anymore or keep pretending that I'm going to finish it. It has some engaging moments, but it's mostly too all over the place and hard to follow. DNF around page 285.
 
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BibliophageOnCoffee | 1 outra crítica | Aug 12, 2022 |

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ISBN
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