Centers of the Self : Stories by Black American Women from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Paperback)

This chronically arranged collection of 26 riveting short works of fiction from the best of America's black women writers includes contributions by such prominent authors as Zora Heale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Rita Dove, and Jamaica Kincaid. Centers of the Self offers us a chronologically arranged collection of riveting short fiction from the best of America's black women writers. Each of these fine works reveals an important aspect of the core experience of self-discovery in African American life. We take pride in a major collection that illuminates a long tradition as well as the recent renaissance of black and women writers.