Gorilla, My Love

Gorilla, My Love
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Women's Press (UK)
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1997
Genre: Short stories, American
ISBN: 9780704345317

Toni Cade Bambara takes the reader on a journey from New York to the Deep South and back in this collection of short stories. The book's concerns are with contemporary Black culture and Toni Cade Bambara's writing is rooted in that experience.

Raymond's Run

Raymond's Run
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781623236199

A story about Squeaky, the fastest thing on two feet, and her brother Raymond.

The Salt Eaters

The Salt Eaters
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-02-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307778010

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.

A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Lesson"

A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410351033

A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Lesson," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307555569

Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. It is a treasure trove not only for those familiar with Bambara's work, but for a new generation of readers who will recognize her contribution to contemporary American letters.

Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir

Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir
Author: Joe Meno
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2007-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0810124246

Novelist, music journalist, and playwright Meno writes squarely in the American tradition of wringing large effects from small change, revealing the subtlety in the broad stroke and conveying complexity with seeming simplicity.

A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"

A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410341747

A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Ice

Ice
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2015-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101970650

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The story of the storm went like this: it was so cold that the neighborhood families burned anything they could to stay warm. The mayor arranged an emergency school bus to get the kids to school. But only the children worried about how the dogs were holding up. “Ice” exhibits the commitment to storytelling and the intersection between fiction and politics that made Toni Cade Bambara one of the most important voices of her generation, and an advocate of recognition for African American women writers. A selection from Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions, a posthumous collection of Bambara’s uncollected writings, included here with a loving preface by Toni Morrison—a discussion of her relationship with Bambara and the unprecedented “heart cling” of her fiction. An eBook short.

The Keeper

The Keeper
Author: Kelcey Ervick
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0593539184

A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl’s life and changed women’s history forever. Growing up playing on a top national soccer team in the 1980s, Kelcey Ervick and her teammates didn’t understand the change they represented. Title IX was enacted in 1972 with little fanfare, but to seismic effect; between then and now, girls’ participation in organized sports has exploded more than 1,000 percent. Braiding together personal narrative, pop culture, literature, and history, Ervick tells the story of how her adolescence was shaped by this boom. Ervick also explores her role as a goalkeeper—a position marked by outsider status and observation—and reveals it has drawn some of the most famed writers of our time. With wit and poignant storytelling, The Keeper brings to life forgotten figures who understood the importance of athletics to help women step into their confidence and power—and push for equality. Full of 1980s nostalgia and heart, The Keeper is a celebration of how far we have come and a reminder of how far we have to go.