White Mama: A Play by Gladys W. Muturi

White Mama: A Play by Gladys W. Muturi
Author: Robert C.S. Downs
Publisher: Gladys W. Muturi
Total Pages: 149
Release:
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1973567288

Based on a novel by Robert Downs and 1980 television film, this play adaptation is about an elderly white widow named Estelle Malone becomes a foster mother to an African American foster teen, B.T. Williamson for the support money. When Estelle gets evicted from her apartment, B.T. joins a boxing ring to raise money to support each other.

A Gathering of Old Men

A Gathering of Old Men
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307830381

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”

Stories of Women

Stories of Women
Author: Elleke Boehmer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005-09-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719068782

This text combines Boehmer's keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context.