Frye Street & Environs: The Collected Works of Marita Bonner
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Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807063002
ISBN13:9780807063002
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Beacon Press (MA)
Length:286 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
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Marita Bonner
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Marita Bonner wrote her Frye Street Stories between 1925 and 1941. They represent a black woman's response to the continuing changes of urbanism and industrialism, and to the continuing facts of racism, sexism, classism, and colorism. She is especially adept at representing the myriad ways in which these things affected blacks of the period, particularly in the domestic sphere. Even though Bonner's stories are marked by an unevenness in quality, they are certainly worth reading for the way they in which they capture a black woman's intellectual response to the world around her in the time period between the Harlem Renaissance and black women's renaissance, which came later in the forties. For me, the standouts are the later stories: PATCH QUILT, ONE TRUE LOVE, ON THE ALTAR, HIGH-STEPPER, STONES FOR BREAD, REAP IT AS YOU SOW IT, and LIGHT IN DARK PLACES.
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