TY - BOOK AU - Hamer,Judith A. AU - Hamer,Martin J. TI - Centers of the self: stories by black American women from the nineteenth century to the present SN - 0809015765 AV - PS647.A35 C46 1994 U1 - 813/.01099287/08996073 20 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Hill and Wang KW - Short stories, American KW - American fiction KW - African American authors KW - Women authors KW - African American women KW - Fiction KW - African Americans N1 - The two offers; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --; After many day : a Christmas story; Fannie Barrier Williams --; The stones of the village; Alice Dunbar-Nelson --; Mary Elizabeth; Jessie Redmon Fauset --; Goldie; Angelina Weld Grimke --; One boy's story; Marita Bonner --; Sanctuary; Nella Larsen --; The gilded six-bits; Zora Neale Hurston --; The typewriter; Dorothy West --; See how they run; Mary Elizabeth Vroman --; Miss Muriel; Ann Petry --; Key to the city; Diane Oliver --; To Da-duh, in memoriam; Paule Marshall --; To hell with dying; Alice Walker --; Tell Martha not to moan; Sherley Anne Williams --; Marigolds; Eugenia W. Collier --; After Saturday night comes Sunday; Sonia Sanchez --; My Man Bovanne; Toni Cade Bambara --; Jevata; Gayl Jones --; Sister Detroit; Colleen McElroy --; Comin to terms; Ntozake Shange --; Requiem for Willie Lee; Frenchy Hodges --; Damon and Vandalia; Rita Dove --; The world of Rosie Polk; Ann Allen Shockley --; Hoodoo; Connie Porter --; Willie Bea and Jaybird; Tina McElroy Ansa --; Song of Roland; Jamaica Kincaid N2 - Twenty-seven stories by black American women. They write on being abandoned by men, on maintaining spiritual strength and on the search for an identity. With biographies of the writers UR - http://www.archive.org/details/centersofselfsto00hame UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1090506M ER -