Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers

Mary Helen Washington

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Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century’s leading black authors that oblige the reader to observe the complexities of the family in new and provocative ways.

ISBN 9780385247832
List price $17.00
Publisher Anchor Books
Year of publication 1990
Medium_4610768-l

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African Diaspora

Feminism and Women's Studies

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