LEADER 04928nam 2200601 450 001 9910818429303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8203-4698-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000116810 035 $a(EBL)1698732 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001224387 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12521121 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001224387 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11260979 035 $a(PQKB)10151443 035 $a(OCoLC)881037156 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38459 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1698732 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10878567 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL613992 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1698732 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000116810 100 $a20000501h20012001 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFields watered with blood $ecritical essays on Margaret Walker /$fedited by Maryemma Graham 210 1$aAthens :$cUniversity of Georgia Press,$d[2001] 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (386 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-3886-9 311 $a0-8203-2254-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aRepresenting an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker's literary career. As they discuss Walker's work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker's writing: folklore and prophecy, place and space, history and politics, gender and race. In addition, the contributors remark on how Walker's emphases on spirituality and on dignity in her daily life make themselves felt in her writin 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a818/.5209 702 $aGraham$b Maryemma 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818429303321 996 $aFields watered with blood$94071067 997 $aUNINA