{"product_id":"conversations-with-toni-cade-bambara","title":"Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversations with Toni Cade Bambara\u003c\/em\u003e reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between Bambara (1939-1995) and her interviewers provides an excellent and necessary resource for those interested in scholarly approaches to her fiction, especially her novels \u003cem\u003eThe Salt Eaters\u003c\/em\u003e and the posthumously published \u003cem\u003eThose Bones Are Not My Child\u003c\/em\u003e, and her acclaimed short story collection \u003cem\u003eGorilla, My Love\u003c\/em\u003e. The collection reveals the passion, humor, and real-life experiences of the woman who through her editing of the groundbreaking anthology of black women's writing \u003cem\u003eThe Black Woman\u003c\/em\u003e and contributions to the documentary \u003cem\u003eW. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices\u003c\/em\u003e changed perceptions of African American culture in the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interviews present a woman who saw herself as -a teacher who writes, a social worker who writes, a youth worker who writes, a mother who writes.- Bambara viewed herself as a cultural worker for oppressed people whose job as an artist was making, in her words, -revolution irresistible.- Indeed, her fiction champions the working class and -average folk, - both of whom she felt were made invisible by mainstream American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume also displays Bambara's passionate criticism of radicalism and revolutionary philosophies that were structured by patriarchal, sexist, and heterosexual-centric paradigms. Her willingness to challenge her own ideals, as well as those that conflicted with them, marks her as one of the most forceful black writers of her era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51160265359671,"sku":"9781496813077","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_789740d0-71c7-4749-9bd4-21852bbf5da0.jpg?v=1759426773","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-toni-cade-bambara","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}