Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385260156 ISBN 13: 9780385260152

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

Synopsis

This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections.  The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.



"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." --The New York Times Book Review

About this title

About the Author

Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers.

From the Back Cover

This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections. The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.

"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." --"The New York Times Book Review

From the Inside Flap

mbines in one volume two now classic short story collections. The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.



"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." --The New York Times Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385260156
• ISBN 13: 9780385260152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Washington Mary Helen