
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like
The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers (Expanded and Revised Edition)
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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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 writingâthey 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
- Cover
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- âBrilliant and Unequivocalâ
- Davida (Adedjouma) Kilgore
- Tina McElroy Ansa
- Lorene Cary
- Pearl Cleage
- J. California Cooper
- Rita Dove
- Gloria Wade-Gayles
- Nikki Giovanni
- Marita Golden
- June Jordan
- Gloria Naylor
- Barbara Neely
- Gwendolyn M. Parker
- Charlotte Watson Sherman
- Barbara Summers
- âThe Chorusâ
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Back Cover