Title: Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions
Subtitle: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
First published: 1996
Description: Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. It is a treasure trove not only for those familiar with Bambara's work, but for a new generation of readers who will recognize her contribution to contemporary American letters.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Literature, African American women, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Fiction, African American women in literature, African American authors, American fiction, African Americans, Theory, Social life and customs, Fiction, general
LC classification: PS3552.A473 D44 1996