Flat-Footed Truths

Telling Black Women's Lives

Author: Patricia Bell-Scott
Secondary Author: Juanita Johnson-Bailey
ISBN: 9780805046281

A new and exciting collection from the editor of the enormously successful Life Notes and the award-winning Double Stitch. With a foreword by Marcia Ann Gillespie.To tell the flat-footed truth is a southern saying that means to tell the naked truth. This revealing and inspiring anthology brings together twenty-seven creative spirits who through essays, interviews, poetry, and photographic images tell black women's lives. In the opening section that discusses the risks involved in sharing your life with others, Sapphire tells us about the challenges in recording her experiences when there has never been any validation that her life was important. The next section chronicles the adventure in claiming the lives of those who have been lost or neglected, such as Alice Walker's search for the real story of Zora Neale Hurston. The third part, which affirms lives of resistance, includes Audre Lorde's acclaimed essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury." The final chapter, focusing on transformed lives, pr

Publisher: Macmillan
Publish Date: 1998-05-15

Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: African-American/Black Studies)