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<p><P>Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. It is a treasure trove not only for those familiar with Bambara's work, but for a new generation of readers who will recognize her contribution to contemporary American letters.</p><h3>V.R. Peterson</h3><p>Throughout Rescue Missions, black readers will see and hear themselves. Its surface is populated with black characters acting with maturity, sustained community, empowered by cultural values drawn from their social, spiritual and political experiences....The only quiet moments in this astute, probing and celebratory book are the blank spaces before the titles. Yet, it's the distance readers may sense between the type of noncommercial artistic commitment Bambara embodied and today's more prevalent exploitati

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Author

Toni Cade Bambara; Toni Morrison

Publisher

Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679774075

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography

Rating

4.9 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14