Memory of kin : [electronic resource] stories about family by black writers / edited, with an introduction and commentary by Mary Helen Washington.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. The extended family -- The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight -- Just like a tree (1968) / Ernest J. Gaines -- Part II. Wives and husbands -- The wedding (1985) / June Jordan -- The poker party (1961) / William Melvin Kelley -- Roselily (1972) / Alice Walker -- The wife of his youth (1899), Po' Sandy (1899) / Charles Chesnutt -- Part III. Mothers and daughters -- Momma (1984) / Paulette Childress White -- Black mother woman (1982) / Audre Lorde -- Mother (1984) / Andrea Lee -- The circling hand (1985) / Jamaica Kincaid -- Getting the facts of life (1989)/ Paulette Childress White -- Part IV. Fathers and daughters -- Forgiving my father (1980) / Lucille Clifton -- New African (1984) / Andrea Lee -- Part V. Mothers and sons -- Mother to son (1926) / Langston Hughes -- The sky is gray (1968) / Ernest J. Gaines -- Part VI. Fathers and sons -- Those winter Sundays (1966) / Robert Hayden -- Forty in the shade (1983) / John McCluskey, Jr. -- A long day in November (1968) / Ernest J. Gaines -- Part VII. Sisters -- The house slave (1980) / Rita Dove -- Little brother (1989) / John Edgar Wideman -- Adventures of the Dread sisters (1989) / Alexis De Veaux -- Part VIII. Brothers -- My brother is homemade (1986) / Sam Cornish -- Sonny's blues (1957) / James Baldwin -- Part IX. Aunts and Uncles -- The house on Norwood (1986) / Toi Derricotte -- Aunt Carrie (1985) / Rita Dove -- Gorilla, my love (1971) / Toni Cade Bambara -- Part X. Grandparents -- My Grandfather walks in the woods (1989) / Marilyn Waniek -- The weakness (1986) / Toi Derricotte -- To Da-duh, in memoriam (1967) / Paule Marshall -- Miss Cynthie (1933) / Rudolph Fisher.

Also issued online.