《RISE UP SINGING》是2005年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Cecelie Berry。
基本介紹
- 書名：RISE UP SINGING
- 作者：Cecelie Berry
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780767914680
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
From a dazzling array of well-known African American women,short fiction, poems, and personal essays that describe with warmthand humor their experiences as mothers and as daughters.A sparkling anthology devoted to exploring the lives of AfricanAmerican mothers, Rise Up Singing presents the stories andreflections of such beloved and respected artists, journalists, andauthors as Alice Walker, Faith Ringgold, Marita Golden, MarthaSouthgate, Tananarive Due, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, DeborahRoberts, Rita Dove, and others. It features original and previouslypublished writings, organized by editor Cecelie Berry bythemes—mothering, work, family, children, community, and love—thatilluminate the multiple roles of black mothers at home, in theneighborhood, and in the world as a whole.Rise Up Singing brings together the perspectives of women ofdifferent ages, backgrounds, and accomplishments. What shinesthrough in their writings are the hopes shared by all mothers. AsMarian Wright Edelman writes in the Foreword: “The mothers writingin this anthology speak in a range of voices. They are joyful,stressed, grateful, ambivalent, determined, disappointed, and, inbad ways and good, overwhelmed. But over and over again . . . wesee mothers struggling with the push: striving to give theirchildren their best and to make sure the world gives their childrenits best, hard as that fight may be.From the Hardcover edition.
作者簡介
CECELIE BERRY, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a journalist. Her personal essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Newsday, New Jersey Monthly, and on Salon.com.From the Hardcover edition.
