Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters
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Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters
This edition
"Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters" . Ed. Patricia Bell-Scott. Boston: Beacon, 1991. xv+271 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993. xv+271 pp.
Table of contents
Threading the needle : beginnings. Newborn / Valerie Jean -- Birth of the Black life / Nubia Kai -- A poem for my mother, Nubia Kai Al-Nura Salaam / Malia Kai -- Insomniac / Esperanza Cintròn -- Baby Faith / Michele Wallace -- Closets and keepsakes / Willi Coleman -- Dear Mama / Sonia Sanchez -- The Thursday ladies / Karla F.C. Holloway -- Images of motherhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Lucie Fultz -- The meaning of motherhood in Black culture and Black mother-daughter relationships / Patricia Hill Collins.
Piecing blocks : identities. The power of names / Irma McClaurin -- Toughing/not touching : my mother / Toi Derricotte -- On the spirit of Mildred Jordan / June Jordan -- Mom de plume / SDiane Bogus -- Lessons / Pearl Cleage -- Mothers of mind / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Black mothers and daughters : traditional and new perspectives / Gloria I. Joseph.
Stitching memories : herstories. Something domestic / Dolores Kendrick -- Mother, in sunlight / Louise Robinson-Boardley -- The taste of mother love / Gloria T. Hull -- Old photo from a family album : 1915 / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- Ah, Momma / June Jordan -- Precious memories / Belvie Rooks -- 'Hush, Mama's gotta go bye-bye' / Renita Weems -- Smoothing the tucks in father's linen : the women of Cedar Hill / Miriam DeCosta-Willis.
Fraying edges : tensions. Beatrice's neck / Ann T. Greene -- Successions / Valerie Jean -- Stepmother / Irma McClaurin -- Reflections of a 'good' daughter / Bell Hooks -- A daughter survives incest : a retrospective analysis / Linda H. Hollies -- Turbulence and tenderness : mothers, daughters, and "othermothers" in Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones / Rosalie Riegle Troester.
Binding the quilt : generations. Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Family tree / Kate Rushin -- At midday / Naomi Long Madgett -- Double exposure / Saundra Sharp -- Four women / Esperanza Cintròn -- To my daughters / Saundra Murray Nettles -- Dyad/triad / Annette Jones White -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker.
Loosening the threads : separations. The lost daughter / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- 'Mawu' / Audre Lorde -- Prose poem : portrait / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- On the dark and moon-less night / Judy Scales-Trent -- Connected to Mama's spirit / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- To my mother's vision / SDiane Bogus -- Last Christmas gift from a mother / Lois F. Lyles.
Piecing blocks : identities. The power of names / Irma McClaurin -- Toughing/not touching : my mother / Toi Derricotte -- On the spirit of Mildred Jordan / June Jordan -- Mom de plume / SDiane Bogus -- Lessons / Pearl Cleage -- Mothers of mind / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Black mothers and daughters : traditional and new perspectives / Gloria I. Joseph.
Stitching memories : herstories. Something domestic / Dolores Kendrick -- Mother, in sunlight / Louise Robinson-Boardley -- The taste of mother love / Gloria T. Hull -- Old photo from a family album : 1915 / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- Ah, Momma / June Jordan -- Precious memories / Belvie Rooks -- 'Hush, Mama's gotta go bye-bye' / Renita Weems -- Smoothing the tucks in father's linen : the women of Cedar Hill / Miriam DeCosta-Willis.
Fraying edges : tensions. Beatrice's neck / Ann T. Greene -- Successions / Valerie Jean -- Stepmother / Irma McClaurin -- Reflections of a 'good' daughter / Bell Hooks -- A daughter survives incest : a retrospective analysis / Linda H. Hollies -- Turbulence and tenderness : mothers, daughters, and "othermothers" in Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones / Rosalie Riegle Troester.
Binding the quilt : generations. Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Family tree / Kate Rushin -- At midday / Naomi Long Madgett -- Double exposure / Saundra Sharp -- Four women / Esperanza Cintròn -- To my daughters / Saundra Murray Nettles -- Dyad/triad / Annette Jones White -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker.
Loosening the threads : separations. The lost daughter / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- 'Mawu' / Audre Lorde -- Prose poem : portrait / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- On the dark and moon-less night / Judy Scales-Trent -- Connected to Mama's spirit / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- To my mother's vision / SDiane Bogus -- Last Christmas gift from a mother / Lois F. Lyles.
Item Number
A0258