Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women

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Label

Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women

Title remainder

personal writings by contemporary Black women

Statement of responsibility

[edited by] Patricia Bell-Scott

Contributor

• Bell-Scott, Patricia

Subject

• Caribbean Area
• African American women | Biography
• Noires -- Caraïbes (Région) -- Journaux intimes
• Women, Black -- Biography
• Egodocumenten
• Women, Black -- Caribbean Area -- Biography
• Women, Black | Diaries | Caribbean Area
• African American women | Diaries
• Biography
• African American women -- Biography
• Noires -- Caraïbes (Région) -- Biographies
• Diaries
• African American women -- Diaries
• Women, Black | Biography
• Noires -- Journaux intimes
• Schriftstellerin
• Women, Black | Diaries
• Vrouwen
• Amerikaans
• Women, Black
• Noires américaines
• Negers
• Women, Black -- Caribbean Area -- Diaries
• Noires -- Biographies
• Women, Black -- Diaries
• Autobiographie
• Karibik
• Women, Black | Biography | Caribbean Area
• Anthologie
• USA
• African American women
• African American women
• Noires américaines -- Biographies
• Schwarze
• Noires américaines -- Journaux intimes

Genre

• Biographies
• Diaries
• Biography
• Journaux intimes
• Anthologie

Language

eng

Summary

• Life Notes is the first collection devoted exclusively to writings from the journals, diaries, and personal notebooks of contemporary Black women by the author of the best-selling Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters. In her foreword to this volume Marcia Ann Gillespie writes, "Keeping a journal is an extraordinarily intimate activity, sharing what we write is to allow another to peer through a delicate window where we stand without covers." In
• This beautiful collection of intensely personal testimonies, 50 courageous writers illuminate the complexities of Black women's lives, offering unique reflections about self, family, intimacy, work, politics, life transitions, violation, and recovery. Among the contributors are well-known writers as well as emerging and previously unpublished writers. A diverse group, they are native daughters from three continents and the Caribbean, the youngest an eight-year-old
• Nigerian girl and the oldest a sixty-five-year-old retired African American telephone operator

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.48/896073

Index

no index present

LC call number

E185.86

LC item number

.L498 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries