I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like
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I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers (Expanded and Revised Edition)

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers (Expanded and Revised Edition)

About this book

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers. The first edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains an essential text for readers of Black feminist literature in all genres. Featuring interviews with and excerpts by writers like Rita Dove, Pearl Cleage, Barbara Neely, June Jordan, and others, this indispensable work speaks to the intersections of politics and art-making along the lines of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Now, writer and cultural critic Rebecca Carroll presents the original conversations alongside personalized introductions by some of the brightest voices in today's literary world, including Donika Kelly, Safiya Sinclair, Diamond Sharp, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, among others. This new edition also includes an introductory poem by Morgan Parker, a foreword by Salamishah Tillet, and a new author's note. The new contributors carry the torch of the original interviewees' lives and words with heart, rigor, gratitude, and radical imagination, illuminating how these conversations are about more than just writing—they are about life, relationships, joy, gratitude, wellness, and self-preservation. I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like is a book unbound by time, lifting up a chorus of past and present voices. Paying homage to a historic lineage of Black feminist writers and their impact on our current literary landscape, it is a book by and for the storytellers, the poets, the playwrights, the dreamers, and all readers interested in what it means to make art within and from marginalized spaces.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction
  6. “Brilliant and Unequivocal”
  7. Davida (Adedjouma) Kilgore
  8. Tina McElroy Ansa
  9. Lorene Cary
  10. Pearl Cleage
  11. J. California Cooper
  12. Rita Dove
  13. Gloria Wade-Gayles
  14. Nikki Giovanni
  15. Marita Golden
  16. June Jordan
  17. Gloria Naylor
  18. Barbara Neely
  19. Gwendolyn M. Parker
  20. Charlotte Watson Sherman
  21. Barbara Summers
  22. “The Chorus”
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Contributors
  25. Back Cover