Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction
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Title
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction
This edition
"Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction" . Ed. Terry McMillan. New York: Penguin, 1990. xxiv+690 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. London: Vintage Books, 1992. xxii+418 pp.
Table of contents
● John Edgar Wideman / Preface
● Terry McMillan / Introduction
● Tina McElroy Ansa / Sarah
● Doris Jean Austin / Looking for Home
● Toni Cade Bambara / My Man Bovanne
● Amiri Baraka / Mondongo
● Barbara Neely / Spilled Salt
● Don Belton / My Soul is a Witness
● Becky Birtha / Johnnieruth
● David Bradley / The Chaneysville Incident
● Wesley Brown / I was Here but I Disappeared
● Octavia Butler / Wild Seed
● Xam Wilson Cartiér / Muz and the Sphere of Memory
● Carolyn Cole / Emma
● Wanda Coleman / Lonnie's Cousin
● J. California Cooper / The Life you Live (may not be your own)
● Steven Corbin / Upward Bound
● Samuel R. Delaney / Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
● William Demby / Love Story Black
● Melvin Dixon / The Boy with Beer
● Rita Dove / The Vibraphone
● Grace Edwards-Yearwood / In the Shadow of the Peacock
● Trey Ellis / Platitudes
● Percival L. Everett / Suder
● Arthur Flowers / De Mojo Blues
● Sandra Hollin Flowers / I Heard the Doctor Speak
● Bill Williams Forde / Tomorrow
● Ernest Gaines / In My Father's House
● Marita Golden / A Woman's Place
● Peter Harris / The Vampire Who Drinks Gospel Music
● Safiya Henderson-Holmes / Snapshots of Grace
● Kristin Hunter / Surviving Christmas
● Angela Jackson / Treemont Stone
● Charles Johnson / China
● Gayl Jones / Eva's Man
● William Melvin Kelley / Homesick Blues
● Randall Kenan / A Visitation of Spirits
● John McCluskey / Lush Life
● Colleen McElroy / Sister Detroit
● Nathaniel Mackey / From Djbot Baghostus's Run
● Terry McMillan / Ma'dear
● James Alan McPherson / A Loaf of Bread
● Clarence Major / Such was the Season
● Paule Marshall / Praise Song for the Widow
● Mary Monroe / The Upper Room
● Gloria Naylor / Mama Day
● Richard Perry / Family Matters
● Darryl Pinckney / Sweet Evening Breeze
● Connie Porter / Hoodoo
● Ishmael Reed / The Terrible Threes
● Fatima Shaik / Before Echo
● Ntozake Shange / Betsey Brown
● Ellease Southerland / A Feast of Fools
● Barbara Summers / Social Work
● Cliff Thompson / Judgment
● Alice Walker / The Abortion
● John Edgar Wideman / Fever
● John A. Williams / Sissie
● Al Young / Seduction by light
● Contributions
● Terry McMillan / Introduction
● Tina McElroy Ansa / Sarah
● Doris Jean Austin / Looking for Home
● Toni Cade Bambara / My Man Bovanne
● Amiri Baraka / Mondongo
● Barbara Neely / Spilled Salt
● Don Belton / My Soul is a Witness
● Becky Birtha / Johnnieruth
● David Bradley / The Chaneysville Incident
● Wesley Brown / I was Here but I Disappeared
● Octavia Butler / Wild Seed
● Xam Wilson Cartiér / Muz and the Sphere of Memory
● Carolyn Cole / Emma
● Wanda Coleman / Lonnie's Cousin
● J. California Cooper / The Life you Live (may not be your own)
● Steven Corbin / Upward Bound
● Samuel R. Delaney / Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
● William Demby / Love Story Black
● Melvin Dixon / The Boy with Beer
● Rita Dove / The Vibraphone
● Grace Edwards-Yearwood / In the Shadow of the Peacock
● Trey Ellis / Platitudes
● Percival L. Everett / Suder
● Arthur Flowers / De Mojo Blues
● Sandra Hollin Flowers / I Heard the Doctor Speak
● Bill Williams Forde / Tomorrow
● Ernest Gaines / In My Father's House
● Marita Golden / A Woman's Place
● Peter Harris / The Vampire Who Drinks Gospel Music
● Safiya Henderson-Holmes / Snapshots of Grace
● Kristin Hunter / Surviving Christmas
● Angela Jackson / Treemont Stone
● Charles Johnson / China
● Gayl Jones / Eva's Man
● William Melvin Kelley / Homesick Blues
● Randall Kenan / A Visitation of Spirits
● John McCluskey / Lush Life
● Colleen McElroy / Sister Detroit
● Nathaniel Mackey / From Djbot Baghostus's Run
● Terry McMillan / Ma'dear
● James Alan McPherson / A Loaf of Bread
● Clarence Major / Such was the Season
● Paule Marshall / Praise Song for the Widow
● Mary Monroe / The Upper Room
● Gloria Naylor / Mama Day
● Richard Perry / Family Matters
● Darryl Pinckney / Sweet Evening Breeze
● Connie Porter / Hoodoo
● Ishmael Reed / The Terrible Threes
● Fatima Shaik / Before Echo
● Ntozake Shange / Betsey Brown
● Ellease Southerland / A Feast of Fools
● Barbara Summers / Social Work
● Cliff Thompson / Judgment
● Alice Walker / The Abortion
● John Edgar Wideman / Fever
● John A. Williams / Sissie
● Al Young / Seduction by light
● Contributions
Reviews and notices of anthology
• n/a
Commentary on anthology
• Barbara Christian. “A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers.” The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions. Ed. David Palumbo-Liu. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. 241-59. Repr. in New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000. Ed. Gloria Bowles, M. Giulia Fabi, and Arlene R. Keizer. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2007. 187-203.
Christian remarks, "I recall the publication of only one major anthology of contemporary Afro-American literature in the 1980s: Breaking Ice (1990), edited by Terry MacMilan" (193).
Christian remarks, "I recall the publication of only one major anthology of contemporary Afro-American literature in the 1980s: Breaking Ice (1990), edited by Terry MacMilan" (193).
• "For anyone unfamiliar with the range of recent black fiction, Breaking Ice is the best possible introduction" (Kinnamon 1997: 474).
Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 474]
Item Number
A0251
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