Deep Sightings Rescue Missions

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Deep Sightings Rescue Missions

Author	: Toni Cade Bambara
File Size	: 53,8 Mb
Publisher	: Vintage
Language	: English
Release Date	: 26 August 2009
ISBN	: 9780307555564
Pages	: 272 pages

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Deep Sightings Rescue Missions by Toni Cade Bambara Book PDF Summary

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.

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