Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
edited by Linda J Holmes and Cheryl A Wall
Temple University Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-1-59213-626-1 | Cloth: 978-1-59213-624-7 | Paper: 978-1-59213-625-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3552.A473Z85 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The extraordinary spirit of Toni Cade Bambara lives on in Savoring the Salt, a vibrant and appreciative recollection of the work and legacy of the multi-talented African American writer, teacher, filmmaker, and activist. Among the contributors who remember Bambara, reflect on her work, and examine its meaning today are Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Ruby Dee, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Nikki Giovanni, Avery Gordon, Audre Lorde, and Sonia Sanchez.
Admiring readers have kept Bambara's fiction in print since her first collection of stories, Gorilla, My Love, was published in 1972. She continued to write -- and her audience and reputation continued to grow -- until her untimely death in 1995. Savoring the Salt includes excerpts from her published and unpublished writings, along with interviews and photos of Bambara. The mix of poets and scholars, novelists and critics, political activists and filmmakers represented here testifies to the ongoing importance and enduring appeal of her work.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Linda Janet Holmes is a writer, independent scholar, and activist. She is also co-author of Listen To Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife.
Cheryl A. Wall is Professor of English at Rutgers University, and the author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition, and Women of the Harlem Renaissance. She is the editor of The Writings of Zora Neale Hurston (2 volumes) and Changing Our Own Words: Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Edited by
Linda J. Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall
With a Foreword by Pearl Cleage
July 2006
Annotation: * means previously published
Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Table of Contents
Foreword Pearl Cleage
Linda J. Holmes and
Cheryl A. Wall Introduction
Linda J. Holmes "Poised for the Light"
Cheryl A. Wall "Toni's Obligato: Bambara and the African American
Literary Tradition"
Part I - Writing From Laughter, Writing From Rage
Toni Cade Bambara "A Sort of Preface" from Gorilla, My Love*
Salamishah Tillett "'Straight-Up Fiction': Sittin' Down with Gorilla, My Love"
Kalamu ya Salaam "Searching for the Mother Tongue" *
Eleanor Traylor "The Language of Soul in Toni Cade Bambara's Re/Conceived Academy"
Anne Wicke Bambara in Translation
Valerie Boyd "'She was just outrageously brilliant': Toni Morrison remembers
Toni Cade Bambara"*
Nikky Finney "The Making of Paper"*
Part II - "Making Revolution Irresistible"
Toni Cade Bambara From The Vietnam Notebooks
Jayne Cortez "Toni. . . she was who she was"
Amiri Baraka "Make the Revolution!"*
Beverly Guy-Sheftall Black Feminist Foremother *
Paula J. Giddings "At the edge of the world"
Farah Jasmine Griffin "How do you measure a revolution?"
Kristin Hunter Lattany "Drive This Thing"
Part III - Teaching Usable Truths
Toni Cade Bambara From "The Children Who Got Cheated"*
Audre Lorde "Dear Toni" [poem] *
Nikki Giovanni "We Drove Together"
Linda J. Holmes "Lessons in Boldness 101"
Jan Carew "A Timeless Truthteller"
Pepsi Charles "T.C.B. -- Taking Care of Business"
Rudolph Byrd "The Feeling of Transport"
Abena Busia "Teaching Toni Cade Bambara Teaching"
Ruby Dee Poem*
Part IV - Guerrilla Filmmaking
Toni Cade Bambara "Why Black Cinema?"*
Aishah Shadidah Simmons "Asserting My In(ter)dependence: The Evolution of No!"
Frances Negrón-Mutaner "Things That Toni Taught Me": A Filmmaker Reflects
Part V - "Having to be whole to see whole"
Toni Cade Bambara From Those Bones Are Not My Child*
Bettina Aptheker Toni Cade Bambara: A Political Life of the Spirit
Avery Gordon "something more powerful than skepticism"*
Sonia Sanchez "Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara" [Poem]*
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Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
edited by Linda J Holmes and Cheryl A Wall
Temple University Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-1-59213-626-1 Cloth: 978-1-59213-624-7 Paper: 978-1-59213-625-4
The extraordinary spirit of Toni Cade Bambara lives on in Savoring the Salt, a vibrant and appreciative recollection of the work and legacy of the multi-talented African American writer, teacher, filmmaker, and activist. Among the contributors who remember Bambara, reflect on her work, and examine its meaning today are Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Ruby Dee, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Nikki Giovanni, Avery Gordon, Audre Lorde, and Sonia Sanchez.
Admiring readers have kept Bambara's fiction in print since her first collection of stories, Gorilla, My Love, was published in 1972. She continued to write -- and her audience and reputation continued to grow -- until her untimely death in 1995. Savoring the Salt includes excerpts from her published and unpublished writings, along with interviews and photos of Bambara. The mix of poets and scholars, novelists and critics, political activists and filmmakers represented here testifies to the ongoing importance and enduring appeal of her work.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Linda Janet Holmes is a writer, independent scholar, and activist. She is also co-author of Listen To Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife.
Cheryl A. Wall is Professor of English at Rutgers University, and the author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition, and Women of the Harlem Renaissance. She is the editor of The Writings of Zora Neale Hurston (2 volumes) and Changing Our Own Words: Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Edited by
Linda J. Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall
With a Foreword by Pearl Cleage
July 2006
Annotation: * means previously published
Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Table of Contents
Foreword Pearl Cleage
Linda J. Holmes and
Cheryl A. Wall Introduction
Linda J. Holmes "Poised for the Light"
Cheryl A. Wall "Toni's Obligato: Bambara and the African American
Literary Tradition"
Part I - Writing From Laughter, Writing From Rage
Toni Cade Bambara "A Sort of Preface" from Gorilla, My Love*
Salamishah Tillett "'Straight-Up Fiction': Sittin' Down with Gorilla, My Love"
Kalamu ya Salaam "Searching for the Mother Tongue" *
Eleanor Traylor "The Language of Soul in Toni Cade Bambara's Re/Conceived Academy"
Anne Wicke Bambara in Translation
Valerie Boyd "'She was just outrageously brilliant': Toni Morrison remembers
Toni Cade Bambara"*
Nikky Finney "The Making of Paper"*
Part II - "Making Revolution Irresistible"
Toni Cade Bambara From The Vietnam Notebooks
Jayne Cortez "Toni. . . she was who she was"
Amiri Baraka "Make the Revolution!"*
Beverly Guy-Sheftall Black Feminist Foremother *
Paula J. Giddings "At the edge of the world"
Farah Jasmine Griffin "How do you measure a revolution?"
Kristin Hunter Lattany "Drive This Thing"
Part III - Teaching Usable Truths
Toni Cade Bambara From "The Children Who Got Cheated"*
Audre Lorde "Dear Toni" [poem] *
Nikki Giovanni "We Drove Together"
Linda J. Holmes "Lessons in Boldness 101"
Jan Carew "A Timeless Truthteller"
Pepsi Charles "T.C.B. -- Taking Care of Business"
Rudolph Byrd "The Feeling of Transport"
Abena Busia "Teaching Toni Cade Bambara Teaching"
Ruby Dee Poem*
Part IV - Guerrilla Filmmaking
Toni Cade Bambara "Why Black Cinema?"*
Aishah Shadidah Simmons "Asserting My In(ter)dependence: The Evolution of No!"
Frances Negrón-Mutaner "Things That Toni Taught Me": A Filmmaker Reflects
Part V - "Having to be whole to see whole"
Toni Cade Bambara From Those Bones Are Not My Child*
Bettina Aptheker Toni Cade Bambara: A Political Life of the Spirit
Avery Gordon "something more powerful than skepticism"*
Sonia Sanchez "Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara" [Poem]*
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