Memory of Kin by Mary Helen Washington - ISBN: 9780385247832
Paperback
Gathers stories and poems by Ernest J. Gaines, Alice Walker, Charles Chesnutt, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Rudolph Fisher.

Memory of Kin

Stories About Family by Black Writers

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 1990

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Summary

Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection “the family as a living mystery.” She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century’s leading black authors that oblige the reader to observe the complexities of the family in new and provocative ways.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780385247832
ISBN-10:0385247834
Author:Mary Helen Washington
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Doubleday
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 December 1990
Weight:439g
Dimensions:203mm x 133mm x 20mm
About The Author

Mary Helen Washington

Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including Black-Eyed Susans- Classic Stories by Black Women Writers;Midnight Birds- Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers;Invented Lives- Narratives of Black Women; andMemory of Kin- Stories of Family by Black Writers.

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