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Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing

Destined to become a classic in the tradition of the best-selling Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds and Erotique Noire/ Black Erotica. Afrekete gives collective voice to the tradition of black lesbian writing. In the vast and proliferating area of both African-American and lesbian and gay writing, the work of black lesbians is most often excluded or relegated to the margins. Afrekete meshes these seemingly disparate traditions and celebrates black lesbian experiences in all their variety and depth.

Elegant, timely, provocative, and inspiring, the fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in Afrekete — written in a range of styles — engage a variety of highly topical themes, placing them at the center of literary and social discourse. Beginning with "Tar Beach," an excerpt from Audre Lorde's celebrated memoir Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, which introduces the character Afrekete, the collection also includes such prominent writers as Michelle Cliff, Carolivia Herron, Jewelle Gomez, and Alexis De Veaux. Other pieces are by Jacqueline Woodson, Sapphire, Essence editor Linda Villarosa, and filmmaker Michelle Parkerson, with other contributions by exciting new writers Cynthia Bond, Jocelyn Taylor, Jamika Ajalon, and Sharee Nash.

Afrekete is a collection whose time has come. It is an extraordinary work, one of lasting value for all lovers of literature. A fresh, engaging journey, Afrekete will both inform and delight.

Contents:

Tar beach by Audre Lorde

American dreams by Sapphire

Testimony of a naked woman by Jocelyn Maria Taylor

Water call by Helen Elaine Lee

Tuesday, August third by Jacqueline Woodson

Dear Aunt Nanadine by Alexis De Veaux

Odds and ends by Michelle Parkerson

What has yet to be sung by Malkia Cyril

The old lady by Carolivia Herron

Wink of an eye by Jewelle Gomez

Kaleidoscope by Jamika Ajalon

Queen for 307 days by Jackie Goldsby

Where will you be? by Pat Parker

Screen memory by Michelle Cliff

Revelations by Linda Villarosa

Ruby by Cynthia Bond

Dare by Melanie Hope

Take care by Sharee Nash

Ode to Aretha by Evelyn C. White

Today is not the day by Audre Lorde

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 336
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780385473552
  • Genres
  • lgbt, queer, anthologies, lesbian, essays
  • Release date
  • 1995