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OverviewThe pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published. Contributors are Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara SmithPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780813527536ISBN 10: 0813527538 Pages: 404 Publication Date: 01 March 2000 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9781978838994 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of Contents"Preface to the Rutgers University Press Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Poem, Akasha (Gloria) Hull The Blood--Yes, The Blood For a Godchild, Regina, On the Occasion of Her First Love, Toi Derricotte The Damned, Toi Derricotte Hester's Song, Toi Derricotte The Sisters, Alexis De Veaux Debra, Michelle T. Clinton If I Could Write This In Fire, I Would Write This In Fire, Michelle Cliff The Blood--Yes, the Blood: A Conversation, Cenen and Barbara Smith Something Latino Was Up With Us, Spring Redd ""I Used To Think"", Chirlane McCray The Black Back-Ups, Kate Rushin Home, Barbara Smith Artists Without Art Form ""Under The Days"": The Buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké, Akasha (Gloria) Hull The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview, Ann Allen Shockley Artists Without Art Form, Renata Weems I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands, Patricia Jones A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women, Jewelle L. Gomez What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Akasha (Gloria) Hull Black Lesbians--Who Will Fight For Our Lives But Us? Tar Beach, Audre Lorde Before I Dress and Soar Again, Donna Allegra LeRoy's Birthday, Raymina Y. Mays The Wedding, Beverly Smith Maria de las Rosas, Becky Birtha Miss Esther's Land, Barbara A. Banks The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community, Cheryl Clarke Where Will You Be? Pat Parker A Home Girls' Album Selected Photographs A Hell of a Place to Ferment a Revolution Among the Things That Use To Be, Willie M. Coleman From Sea to Shining Sea, June Jordan Women of Summer, Cheryl Clarke The TIred Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman, Kate Rushin Shoes Are Made for Walking, Shirley O. Steele Billy de Lye, Deirdre McCalla The Combahee River Collective Statement, Combahee River Collective Black Macho and Black Feminism, Linda C. Powell Black Lesbian/Feminist Organizing: A Conversation, Tania Abdulahad, Gwendolyn Rogers, Barbara Smith, Jameelah Waheed For Strong Women, Michelle T. Clinton The Black Goddess, Kate Rushin Women's Spirituality: A Household Act, Luisah Teish Only Justice Can Stop a Curse, Alice Walker Coalition Politics: Turning the Century, Bernice Johnson Reagon Contributors' Biographies"ReviewsThe survival of these women and their joy makes Home Girls very satisfying. * Essence * A provocative and important new collection. * Ms. * Pungent and varied, full of questions, convictions, and insights. * The Nation * It is fitting that Home Girls also reflects and celebrates the difference, among the [thirty-three] Black feminist writers, critics, and theorists assembled from the United States and the Caribbean, among Black women of all colors, classes, and cultures. More importantly, it reflects and celebrates our connections. * Women's Review of Books * Pungent and varied, full of questions, convictions, and insights. Author InformationBarbara Smith is an independent scholar and was co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. She has been writer in residence and taught at numerous colleges and universities for over twenty-five years. The author of many books, articles, and essays, including The Truth That Never Hurts (also by Rutgers University Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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