The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women

Description: The Unforgetting Heart by Asha Kanwar Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description This collection brings together an unprecedented range of beautifully crafted short stories by women that span a century and a half of African American literary tradition. Editor Asha Kanwars introduction provides historical background and context for the selection of stories by authors as varied as Alice Dunbar Nelson, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, and Wanda Coleman. The writers included here, both the famous and the less well-known, together represent the remarkable diversity of African American womens writing across class, culture,and time.The Unforgetting Heart:What an appropriate title! What a stunning collection! These unforgettable stories-from laundry room to ballroom, from Brooklyn to Barbados, from colored folks to African Americans-will sweep into your life with all the variety, verve, intellect and heart of the women who produced them.- Tina McElroy Ansa, author ofBaby of the FamilyandUgly WaysThe Unforgetting Heart...will make you laugh, bring tears to your eyes and touch the very depths of your souls. Most of all,The UnforgettingHeart will capture yours.- Johnetta B. Cole, President, Spelman CollegeOften touted as great oral storytellers, African American women have nonetheless been ignored as short story writers.The UnforgettingHeartis a lively historical sampling that will challenge readers, teachers and scholarly views of African American womens contributions to cultural/literary history.- Barbara Christian, author ofBlack Feminist CriticismandBlack Women Novelists, Professor ofAfrican American Studies, UC BerkeleyThis anthology will be a rewarding addition for womens studies collections, as a resource for new discoveries and old favorites.- BooklistAsha Kanwar has collected some of the best Black female writers of all time, adding to that voices buried under years of neglect. All of them shimmer with a new radiance, and an immediate intimacy...a rare jewel. Its time has come indeed.- Seattle Gay News Author Biography Asha Kanwaris an Indian woman who lives in New Delhi where she teaches English at the Indira Gandhi National Open University. After a traditionally arranged marriage at eighteen, she continued her education mainly supported by various scholarships. A British Council grant enabled her to obtain her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, England, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on British Marxism and the nineteenth century novel. Asha received a Fulbright fellowship in 1992 for research on fiction by African American women writers which she conducted during her tenure at the English Department at Iowa State University.Asha is the author of two critical books entitledThe Novels of Virginia Woolf and Anite Desai(New Delhi: Prestige, 1989) andFictional Theories and Three Great Novels(New Delhi: Prestige, 1990). She has translated Ngugi wa Thiongos novelMatigariinto Hindi (New Delhi: Atma Ram, 1991). She plans to translate stories fromThe Unforgetting Heartinto Hindi, so that readers in India, especially Dalits, will have access to the expressions of a people whose resistance is similar to their own. Details ISBN 1879960303 ISBN-13 9781879960305 Title The Unforgetting Heart Author Asha Kanwar Format Paperback Year 1993 Pages 272 Publisher Aunt Lute Books GE_Item_ID:11897467; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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