
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
Thabiti Lewis
(Editor)Description
The interviews present a woman who saw herself as "a teacher who writes, a social worker who writes, a youth worker who writes, a mother who writes." Bambara viewed herself as a cultural worker for oppressed people whose job as an artist was making, in her words, "revolution irresistible." Indeed, her fiction champions the working class and "average folk," both of whom she felt were made invisible by mainstream American society.
The volume also displays Bambara's passionate criticism of radicalism and revolutionary philosophies that were structured by patriarchal, sexist, and heterosexual-centric paradigms. Her willingness to challenge her own ideals, as well as those that conflicted with them, marks her as one of the most forceful black writers of her era.
Product Details
Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
Publish Date | May 18, 2017 |
Pages | 178 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781496813077 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.4 inches | 0.6 pounds |
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