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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.
"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.