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Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)

Autor/a de The Salt Eaters

24+ obres 1,441 Membres 12 Ressenyes 3 preferits

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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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys

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Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 95 exemplars
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Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (1990) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
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Black-Eyed Susans; Classic Stories By and About Black Women (1975) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021) — Col·laborador — 51 exemplars
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers (1980) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
The Random House Book of Sports Stories (1990) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
A Walk in My World: International Short Stories About Youth (1998) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
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Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories (2000) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Family: Stories from the Interior (1987) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
The Short Story & You (1987) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars

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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 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | 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 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Aug 12, 2022 |
This disorienting but vivid novel deserves another read before I write this review. The book's non-linear, poetic style is a deliberate (and clever) way to reflect the protagonist's own healing, which itself involves a meandering backtracking in time before she can deal with the present (and future).
 
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irrelephant | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Feb 21, 2021 |

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1,441
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ISBN
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