{"product_id":"these-hands-i-know-african-american-writers-on-family-paperback","title":"These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAfaa M. Weaver\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese Hands I Know \u003c\/i\u003eoffers readers the first-ever intimate view of the inner workings of black family life from the point of view of prose and poetry writers. This collection of seventeen essays includes portraits of fathers, mothers, nieces, brothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, and daughters--in short the full spectrum of absolute humanity in contemporary black families. Here, in letter form, a man speaks to his aunt, the family matriarch. A daughter rejects her father's ideas of African-American identity. A young woman holds her niece in her hands for the very first time. And a son faces his father as an old man and finally comes to terms with his failings. \u003ci\u003eThese Hands I Know \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to gather a resolutely honest picture of family life, however painful or joyous that truth may be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Family life is an insistent vessel traveling the space of our struggles to love and to be loved. . . . Africans and their descendants in America have always been nothing more and nothing less than human. If anything is constant and universal, it is suffering--personal, social, and political. If these essays offer anything, it is the affirmation of humanity.\"--From the Introduction by Afaa Michael Weaver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarketing Plans: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Advertisements in key literary and trade magazines\u003cbr\u003e Newsletter, brochure, catalog, and postcard mailings\u003cbr\u003e Reader copies available to booksellers through participation in Book Sense Advance Access Program\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include: \u003cbr\u003e Fred D'Aguiar\u003cbr\u003e Tara Betts\u003cbr\u003e Gwendolyn Brooks\u003cbr\u003e Karen Chandler\u003cbr\u003e Edwidge Danticat\u003cbr\u003e Jarvis Q. DeBerry\u003cbr\u003e Gerald Early\u003cbr\u003e Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e Lise Funderburg\u003cbr\u003e Walter Warren Harper\u003cbr\u003e Honor馥 Fanonne Jeffers\u003cbr\u003e Trent Masiki\u003cbr\u003e E. Ethelbert Miller\u003cbr\u003e Marilyn Nelson\u003cbr\u003e Kalamu ya Salaam\u003cbr\u003e Della Scott\u003cbr\u003e Alice Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso available by Afaa Michael Weaver\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMultitudes: Poems Selected and New\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TC $24.00, 1-889330-40-X - CUSA\u003cbr\u003e TP $14.95, 1-889330-41-8 - CUSA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese Hands I Know offers readers the first-ever intimate view of the inner workings of black family life from the point of view of prose and poetry writers. This collection of seventeen essays includes portraits of fathers, mothers, nieces, brothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, and daughtersin short the full spectrum of absolute humanity in contemporary black families. Here, in letter form, a man speaks to his aunt, the family matriarch. A daughter rejects her fathers ideas of African-American identity. A young woman holds her niece in her hands for the very first time. And a son faces his father as an old man and finally comes to terms with his failings. Acclaimed authors such as Alice Walker, Edwidge Danticat, Fred DAguiar, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. offer their testimonies, as well as newcomers Jarvis Q. DeBerry, Della Scott, and Lise Funderburg. These Hands I Know seeks to gather a resolutely honest picture of family life, however painful or joyous that truth may be. \"Family life is an insistent vessel traveling the space of our struggles to love and to be loved. . . . Africans and their descendants in America have always been nothing more and nothing less than human. If anything is constant and universal, it is sufferingpersonal, social, and political. If these essays offer anything, it is the affirmation of humanity.\" From the Introduction by Afaa Michael Weaver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9.02 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards (2003)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45615315845164,"sku":"9781889330723","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/these-hands-i-know-african-american-writers-on-family-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}