Biddle,Arthur W. (Author) and Bien,Gloria (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
845 p, Includes Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"; George Lamming's "A wedding in spring"; Paule Marshall's "from The chosen place, the timeless people"; Edward Kamau Brathwaite's "Red rising" and "Xango"; Jean Rhys' "The day they burned the books"; Simone Schwarz-Bart's "from The bridge of beyond"; Grace Nichols' "Wherever I hang" and "Tropical death"; Michelle Cliff's "If I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire"; Lorna Goodison's "The mulatta and the minotaur," "Lullaby for Jean Rhys," "Nanny" and "For my mother (may I inherit half her strength)"; Aimé Césaire's "from Return to my native land"; Joseph Zobel's "The gift"; Derek Walcott's' "Sea grapes," "The swamp," and "The castaway"; V.S. Naipaul's "from The mystic masseur"; and /Earl Lovelace's "from The dragon can't dance"