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Subject(s)

• Walker, Margaret 1915-1998—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• African American women in literature [Browse]
• African Americans in literature [Browse]
• Women and literature—United States—History—20th century [Browse]

Related name

• Graham, Maryemma [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-340) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: The Most Famous Person Nobody Knows
• Pt. 1. The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker. "I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People": The Emergence of Margaret Walker / Maryemma Graham. Black Women Writers at Work: An Interview with Margaret Walker / Claudia Tate. Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South / Joyce Pettis. Down from the Mountaintop / Melissa Walker. The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism": Revolution, Vision, History / Minrose C. Gwin
• Pt. 2. From For My People to This Is My Century: The Poetry of Margaret Walker. The "Etched Flame" of Margaret Walker: Literary and Biblical Re-Creation in Southern History / R. Baxter Miller. Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of Margaret Walker / Eugenia Collier. "Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's Poem of the Century / Eleanor Traylor. Folkloric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry / B. Dilla Buckner.
• Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use of Poetic "Folk Voice" / Tomeiko R. Ashford. The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home / Ekaterini Georgoudaki. For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation / Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century / Florence Howe
• Pt. 3. Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice. Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works of Margaret Walker / Eleanor Traylor. "Oh Freedom": Women and History in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Phyllis R. Klotman. Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / James E. Spears. From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Charlotte Goodman. "Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style / Jacqueline Miller Carmichael. The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee / Hiroko Sato. The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative / Amy Levin.
• Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight / Esim Erdim. The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response to the Character of Vyry / Michelle Cliff
• Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
• Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker.

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ISBN

0820322547 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00032540

OCLC

44132897

RCP

C - S

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