Het schrijfwerk van Toni Cade Bambara duikt diep in de levens en strijd van de Afro-Amerikaanse gemeenschap, diepgaand gevormd door de burgerrechten- en zwart-nationalistische bewegingen. Haar proza wordt gekenmerkt door een levendig taalgebruik en een krachtig gemeenschapsgevoel, waarbij thema's als identiteit, veerkracht en het streven naar gerechtigheid worden verkend. Bambara's aanpak biedt lezers een boeiend inzicht in deze werelden met onwrikbare empathie en een scherp oog voor maatschappelijke ongelijkheden. Haar onderscheidende stijl, die volkstaal combineert met poëtische precisie, geeft stem aan gemarginaliseerden en resoneert met een krachtige, authentieke geest.
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.”
Fifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, from uptown New York to rural North Carolina."Bambara grabs you by the throat ... she dazzles, she charms." — Chicago Daily NewsA young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.
Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political struggles, she is undergoing healing in the Southwest Community Infirmary. Confronting her there is Minnie Ransom, spinster and fabled vehicle of the spirit world.
A suspenseful, epic novel portraying a community-and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. 'A magnus opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta's booming economy when she awakens one summer's morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared. As uneasy hours turn into desperate days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on an epic search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who called Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.