Toni Cade Bambara (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Before Toni Cade Bambara published her first collection of stories, Gorilla, My Love (1972), she edited two anthologies, The Black Woman (1970) and Tales and Stories for Black Folks (1971), under the name Toni Cade. Her 1980 novel, The Salt Eaters, was well received and won many awards. She was also an active screenwriter whose credits included Louis Massiah’s The Bombing of Osage Avenue (1986), about the bombing of the Movement (MOVE) Organization’s headquarters in Philadelphia, and Massiah’s W. E. B. Du Bois: A...

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