From Library Journal
This magnificent and totally original book highlights the emotional battles that blacks will recognize from their own lives in a racist society. As she offers glimpses in her stories of her personal experiences, like her family's migration from south to north, she sends the message that unless you have self-knowledge others can make you become what they desire you to be. She also reminds us that a person without a past is a person without an identity. The richness of this black writer's prose weaves a delicate thread throughout this appealing collection, which will acquaint its readers not only with life's everyday dilemmas but with distinct experiences within the black community itself. Rec ommended.
- Gayle Leach, Wayne State Univ., Detroit
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Gayle Leach, Wayne State Univ., Detroit
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Readers will be enlightened by this chronicle of common experiences from the author of Mad At Miles and Deals With The Devil.
In The Brass Bed, a collection of autobiographical short stories, Cleage engages the reader in refreshing prose/poetry which reconciles gender consciousness with the collective African American experience.
In The Brass Bed, a collection of autobiographical short stories, Cleage engages the reader in refreshing prose/poetry which reconciles gender consciousness with the collective African American experience.
About the Author
Pearl Cleage teaches playwrighting at Spelman College. She is also a cofounder of the literary magazine Catalyst and writes a column for the Atlanta Tribune.
