作品情報

母であることをめぐる黒人女性の声を束ねたアンソロジー。

母であることをめぐる黒人女性作家たちの文章を通して、家族や身体、労働の経験が交わる場所を照らし出すアンソロジー。個人の語りを集めながら、共同的な視点を形づくる。

書籍情報

出版社

Doubleday

発売日

2004-05-04

ページ数

304ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.1 x 2.39 x 24.16 cm

ISBN-13

9780385509039

ISBN-10

0385509030

価格

16328 JPY

カテゴリ

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.

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