Mending the World by Rosemarie Robotham

Mending the World by Rosemarie Robotham

Today's most talented African American writers redefine and celebrate the black family in a collection of uniquely evocative poetry and prose. . The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge the resilience and strength of African American families through centuries of hardship. In Mending the World, a host of beloved writers celebrate the richness of black family life, revealing how deep, complicated, and joyous modern kinship can be. From James McBride's tender recollection of the man who claimed eight stepchildren as his own to Toi Derricotte's moving portrait of a pregnant teenager who decides to keep her child; from Debra Dickerson's lament over the shooting that crippled her neph ew to Charles Johnson's whimsical look at a married couple's mid-life crisis; from Shay Youngblood's moving fictional evocation of a lost mother to poet Kendel Hippolyte's poignant telling of a father's unexpected legacy, this inspiring volume presents-through fiction, memoir, and poetry-a multi-layered and optimistic portrait of today's black America. Mending the World features fiction, personal memoir, and poetry by new writers (some publishing here for the first time) and established members of the canon.

Rosemarie Robotham is the senior Edi tor-at-Large of Essence magazine. She is the co-au thor of Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century, the editor of the anthology The Bluelight Corner, and the au thor of a novel, Zachary's Wings. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780465070626
ISBN 10	0465070620
Title	Mending the World
Author	Rosemarie Robotham
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Publisher	INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Year published	2002-12-11
Number of pages	304
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