| Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations Contributor(s): Bambara, Toni Cade (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679774076 ISBN-13: 9780679774075 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.98" W x 8.18" (0.80 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here are stories of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gang-bangers. Here are reflections on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessity of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. |