Toni Cade Bambara (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
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Toni Cade Bambara is best known for her short stories, which appear frequently in anthologies. She has also received recognition as a novelist, essayist, journalist, editor, and screenwriter, as well as a social activist and community leader. Her stories depict the daily lives of ordinary people who live in the black neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Harlem, and sections of New York City and the rural South. Although she wrote in other genres, her short stories established her reputation. In Gorilla, My Love (1972), a collection of fifteen stories, Bambara...
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