Fields watered with blood
Subtitle: critical essays on Margaret Walker
By: edited by Maryemma Graham.
Contributors: Graham, Maryemma.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Walker, Margaret, 1915- -- Criticism and interpretation.; African American women in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART 1 The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker; title: "I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People":; title: The Emergence of Margaret Walker ii; title: Maryemma Graham; title: Black Women Writers at Work:; title: An Interview with Margaret Walker 28; title: Claudia Tate; title: Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South 44; title: Joyce Pettis; title: Down from the Mountaintop 55; title: Melissa Walker; title: The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism":; title: Revolution, Vision, History 66; title: Minrose C. Gwin; title: PART 2 From For My People to This Is My Century:; title: The Poetry of Margaret Walker; title: The "Etched Flame" of Margaret Walker: Literary and Biblical; title: Re-Creation in Southern History 81; title: R. Baxter Miller; title: Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in; title: the Poetry of Margaret Walker 98; title: Eugenia Collier; title: "Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's; title: Poem of the Century nlo; title: Eleanor Traylor; title: Folldoric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry 139; title: B. Dilla Buckner; title: Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use; title: of Poetic "Folk Voice" 148; title: Tomeiko R. Ashford; title: The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home 164; title: Ekaterini Georgoudaki; title: For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation 179; title: Jerry W. Ward Jr.; title: Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century 187; title: Florence Howe; title: PART 3 Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice; title: Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works; title: of Margaret Walker 195; title: Eleanor Traylor; title: "Oh Freedom": Women and History; title: in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 209; title: Phyllis R. Klotman; title: Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 225; title: James E. Spears; title: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female; title: Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 231; title: Charlotte Goodman; title: "Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style 241; title: Jacqueline Miller Carmichael; title: The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 269; title: Hiroko Sato; title: The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative 283; title: Amy Levin; title: Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight 290; title: Esim Erdim; title: The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response; title: to the Character of Vyry 304; title: Michelle Cliff; title: Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the; title: Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual 315; title: Deborah Elizabeth Whaley; title: Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker 319; title: Contributors 341; title: Index 345.