Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers

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Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers

This edition

"Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers" . Ed. Mary Helen Washington. Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1980. xxv+274 pp.

Other editions, reprints, and translations


• Repr. 1990 (see below).

Table of contents

In pursuit of our own history / Mary Helen Washington -- Alice / Paulette Childress White -- The riddles of Egypt Brownstone / Alexis Deveaux -- The bird cage / Paulette Childress White -- Laurel ; Advancing Luna and Ida B. Wells / Alice Walker -- Aw, babee, you so pretty / Ntozake Shange -- Requiem for Willie Lee / Frenchy Hodges -- Remember him a outlaw / Alexis Deveaux -- Asylum ; Jevata / Gayl Jones -- Eva Peace / Toni Morrison -- Witchbird / Toni Cade Bambara -- Meditations on history / Sherley Anne Williams -- Comin to terms / Ntozake Shange -- Medley / Toni Cade Bambara.

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Kinnamon 1997: 473]

Item Number

A0217

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