Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
An anthology of black women writers on motherhood that reconsiders maternal experience through family, labor, and identity. The collection brings together a range of voices and perspectives.
Work Information
An anthology gathering black women writers on motherhood.
Through essays and writing by black women authors, the anthology illuminates where family, body, and labor intersect. It assembles individual voices into a shared perspective.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Published
- 2004-05-04
- Pages
- 304 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.1 x 2.39 x 24.16 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780385509039
- ISBN-10
- 0385509030
- Price
- 16328 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Parenting & Families/Family Relationships
From a dazzling array of well-known African American women, short fiction, poems, and personal essays that describe with warmth and humor their experiences as mothers and as daughters. A sparkling anthology devoted to exploring the lives of African American mothers, Rise Up Singing presents the stories and reflections of such beloved and respected artists, journalists, and authors as Alice Walker, Faith Ringgold, Marita Golden, Martha Southgate, Tananarive Due, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Deborah Roberts, Rita Dove, and others. It features original and previously published writings, organized by editor Cecelie Berry by themes—mothering, work, family, children, community, and love—that illuminate the multiple roles of black mothers at home, in the neighborhood, and in the world as a whole. Rise Up Singing brings together the perspectives of women of different ages, backgrounds, and accomplishments. What shines through in their writings are the hopes shared by all mothers. As Marian Wright Edelman writes in the Foreword: “The mothers writing in this anthology speak in a range of voices. They are joyful, stressed, grateful, ambivalent, determined, disappointed, and, in bad ways and good, overwhelmed. But over and over again . . . we see mothers struggling with the push: striving to give their children their best and to make sure the world gives their children its best, hard as that fight may be.”
CECELIE BERRY , a graduate of Harvard Law School and a journalist. Her personal essays have been published in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Newsweek , Newsday , New Jersey Monthly , and on Salon.com.