Blues Vision : African American Writing from Minnesota /
"A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Saint Paul :
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Alexs Pate
- SCENE 1 HEART
- Birth of the Cool: Minnesota / Philip Bryant
- from A Choice of Weapons / Gordon Parks
- Poetryapolis / Roy McBride
- Tracks / Tish Jones
- Ottawa, MN, Cemetery
- 1992 / Philip Bryant
- Coming to Minnesota / Susan J. Smith-Grier
- Anybody but me on Grand Avenue / Mary Moore Easter
- Afrika / E.G. Bailey
- Kenwood 1964 / Frank B. Wilderson III
- SCENE 2 REMEMBERED
- God's Chosen People / Lloyd Brown
- Apology for Apostasy? / Etheridge Knight
- from Swallow the Fish / Gabrielle Civil
- Migrations / Angela Shannon
- Glitter Lions / David Haynes
- Autobiographia / G.E. Patterson
- Shameless Lutherans / Mary Moore Easter
- St. Peter, Minnesota: Barry Harris / Philip Bryant
- Granny's Story / Shá Cage
- SCENE 3 PLACES
- from The Slide / Alexs Pate
- Our Grandmothers / Shá Cage
- Tongue Swallow / J. Otis Powell?!
- Christmas Tale / Conrad Balfour
- Creating Change / Andrea Jenkins
- All the Information We Have / Shannon Gibney
- from I Believe I'll Run On and See What the End's Gonna Be / Kim Hines
- As You Leave Me / Etheridge Knight
- Home Delivery / Anthony Peyton Porter
- SCENE 4 FELT
- When a Cat Goes Out / J. Otis Powell?!
- Heartsong for Our Father / Louis Alemayehu
- OnScene / Tish Jones
- Love Across the Middle Passage / Shannon Gibney
- It's Like a Miracle / David Grant
- At the End of Myself / Rohan Preston
- Lilac Week / Roy McBride
- The Bank Robbery / Carolyn Holbrook and Steven Holbrook
- Mama / Evelyn Fairbanks
- SCENE 5 FACES
- from Born to Be / Taylor Gordon
- Kwame J.C. McDonald / Kofi Bobby Hickman
- My Rites of Passage / Kemet Imhotep
- Decay / Taiyon Coleman
- I Hear Myself Say (MMA) / Rohan Preston
- The Night Before / Craig Green
- The Brawl in St. Paul / Kofi Bobby Hickman
- Akhenaten's Dream: SunRise! / Louis Alemayehu
- The Pork Chop Wars / Laurie Carlos
- Off to the Big City / Nellie Stone Johnson.
- SCENE 6 HEARD
- Stones and Sticks / Carolyn Holbrook
- Who Would You Be? / Arleta Little
- In the City, Homelessness / Davida Adedjouma
- Smart Enough for Ford / Clarence White
- Zombies, by Andre Lord / Kyra Crawford-Calvert
- Sabotage / Anthony Peyton Porter
- On Performing "Berlitz" / Gabrielle Civil
- Liberia / E.G. Bailey
- Job / G.E. Patterson
- SCENE 7 SPOKEN
- Mary / G.E. Patterson
- Bad / Pamela R. Fletcher
- Inland Sea / Roy McBride
- Preston's Dream: Version No. 1 / Philip Bryant
- To Be Black in America / Ralph Remington
- Don't Blink / Libby Green
- Unbuckling / Rohan Preston
- The Stagnant Reassurance in the Communication of the Dead / Taiyon Coleman
- Carrying Home / Angela Shannon
- Anniversary / J. Otis Powell?!
- Lifeline / Pamela R. Fletcher.