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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: PART 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 ii -- Maryemma Graham -- Black Women Writers at Work: -- An Interview with Margaret Walker 28 -- Claudia Tate -- Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South 44 -- Joyce Pettis -- Down from the Mountaintop 55 -- Melissa Walker -- The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism": -- Revolution, Vision, History 66 -- Minrose C. Gwin -- PART 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 81 -- R. Baxter Miller -- Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in -- the Poetry of Margaret Walker 98 -- Eugenia Collier -- "Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's -- Poem of the Century nlo -- Eleanor Traylor -- Folldoric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry 139 -- B. Dilla Buckner -- Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use -- of Poetic "Folk Voice" 148 -- Tomeiko R. Ashford -- The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home 164 -- Ekaterini Georgoudaki -- For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation 179 -- Jerry W. Ward Jr. -- Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century 187 -- Florence Howe -- PART 3 Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice -- Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works -- of Margaret Walker 195 -- Eleanor Traylor -- "Oh Freedom": Women and History -- in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 209 -- Phyllis R. Klotman -- Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 225 -- James E. Spears -- From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female -- Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 231 -- Charlotte Goodman -- "Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style 241 -- Jacqueline Miller Carmichael -- The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 269 -- Hiroko Sato -- The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative 283 -- Amy Levin -- Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight 290 -- Esim Erdim -- The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response -- to the Character of Vyry 304 -- Michelle Cliff -- Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the -- Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual 315 -- Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker 319 -- Contributors 341 -- Index 345. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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African American women in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Electronic books.
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Graham, Maryemma, editor.
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Print version: Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2001] xxvii, 355 pages ; 24 cm 9780820322544 (DLC)10878567 |
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0820322547 (alk. paper) |
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9780820322544 |
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9780820346984 (electronic bk.) |
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