Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker /
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART 1 The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker
- "I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People":
- The Emergence of Margaret Walker ii
- Maryemma Graham
- Black Women Writers at Work:
- An Interview with Margaret Walker 28
- Claudia Tate
- Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South 44
- Joyce Pettis
- Down from the Mountaintop 55
- Melissa Walker
- The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism":
- Revolution, Vision, History 66
- Minrose C. Gwin
- PART 2 From For My People to This Is My Century:
- The Poetry of Margaret Walker
- The "Etched Flame" of Margaret Walker: Literary and Biblical
- Re-Creation in Southern History 81
- R. Baxter Miller
- Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in
- the Poetry of Margaret Walker 98
- Eugenia Collier
- "Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's
- Poem of the Century nlo
- Eleanor Traylor
- Folldoric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry 139
- B. Dilla Buckner
- Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use
- of Poetic "Folk Voice" 148
- Tomeiko R. Ashford
- The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home 164
- Ekaterini Georgoudaki
- For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation 179
- Jerry W. Ward Jr.
- Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century 187
- Florence Howe
- PART 3 Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice
- Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works
- of Margaret Walker 195
- Eleanor Traylor
- "Oh Freedom": Women and History
- in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 209
- Phyllis R. Klotman
- Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 225
- James E. Spears
- From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female
- Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 231
- Charlotte Goodman
- "Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style 241
- Jacqueline Miller Carmichael
- The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 269
- Hiroko Sato
- The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative 283
- Amy Levin
- Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight 290
- Esim Erdim
- The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response
- to the Character of Vyry 304
- Michelle Cliff
- Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the
- Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual 315
- Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
- Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker 319
- Contributors 341
- Index 345.