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Overview"A Bird by Bird for the African-American market--A top-notch writer's guide filled with practical guidance, essays, and journal exercises for the African-American writer including advice from E.Lynn Harris, Charles Johnson, and Yolanda Joe. In her introduction, Jewell Parker Rhodes writes: ""Never (in four years of college or five years of graduate school) was I assigned an exercise or given a story example that included a person of color...While the educational system and the publishing world have become progressively more welcoming of African-American authors, there is still little attention to educating, supporting, and sustaining the writing process of African-American authors. Free Within Ourselves is a solid first step--it is the book I wished I had when I started out as a writer. It is meant to be a song of encouragement for African-American artisits and visionaries. Free Within Ourselves is a step-by-step introduction to fictional technique, exploring story ideas, and charting one's progress, as well as a resource guide for publishing fiction."" For the legions of people who have a novel stuck in their word processors, help is finally on the way! Free Within Ourselves is an excellent guide to all the elements necessary to crafting fiction: character development, point of view, plot, atmosphere, dialogue, diction, sentence variety, and revision. Writing techniques are taught using exercises, journaling, story examples, and analyses of famous writing fragments, as well as several complete stories (including those of James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edwidge Dandicat, among others). The book is further enhanced by inspirational advice from successful contemporary black writers (such as Bebe Moore Campbell, Rita Dove, Henry Louis Gates, John Edgar Wideman, and others), a bibliography, and a guide to workshops, journals, magazines, contests, and fellowships supportive of black arts." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jewell Parker RhodesPublisher: Main Street Books Imprint: Main Street Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9780385491754ISBN 10: 0385491751 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 05 October 1999 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for Jewell Parker Rhodes's Magic City: <br> A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will, magically, turn out for the best. -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <br> Jewell Parker Rhodes's characters hover. They dance and sing and cry and whisper secrets in your ear. -- Emerge Praise for Jewell Parker Rhodes's @lt;b@gt;Magic City@lt;/b@gt; @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will, magically, turn out for the best. --@lt;i@gt;The Atlanta Journal-Constitution@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Jewell Parker Rhodes's characters hover. They dance and sing and cry and whisper secrets in your ear. --@lt;i@gt;Emerge@lt;/i@gt; Author InformationJewell Parker Rhodes, Ph.D., is the author of the novels Voodoo Dreams and Magic City, and is the recipient of a Yaddo Creative Writing Fellowship as well as the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction. She is the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing and a professor of American literature at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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