In search of a beautiful freedom : new and selected essays /
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin's rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19 and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of so...
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
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Table of Contents:
- Learning how to listen
- Ladies sing Miles
- When Malindy sings: a meditation on Black women's vocality
- Returning to Lady Day: a reflection on two decades "in search of Billie Holiday"
- Songs of experience: Odetta
- Quiet, stillness, and longing to be free: the ethereal soul of Syreeta Wright, Minnie Riperton, and Deniece Williams
- Following Geri's lead
- Look where your hands are now
- Wrestling till dawn: on becoming an intellectual in the age of Toni Morrison
- Albert Raboteau: an appreciation (drawn from remarks on the occasion of his retirement from Princeton University, April 26, 2013)
- Minnie's sacrifice: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's narrative of citizenship
- Zora Neale Hurston's radical individualism
- Hunting communists and negroes in Ann Petry's The Narrows
- "It takes two people to confirm the truth": the jazz fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara
- Learning how to listen: Ntozake Shange's work as aesthetic primer
- Remaking the everyday: the interior worlds of Kathleen Collins's fiction and film
- A place of freedom: Gayl Jones's Brazilian epic
- Treating the serpent's sting
- Textual healing: claiming Black women's bodies, the erotic, and resistance in contemporary novels of slavery
- "Ironies of the saint": Malcolm X, Black women, and the price of protection
- Conflict and chorus: reconsidering Toni Cade's The Black Women: An Anthology
- That the mothers may soar and the daughters may know their names: a retrospective of Black feminist literary criticism
- At last...?: Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, race, and history
- One crisis and possibility
- On the fourth anniversary of September 11
- Human rights and the Katrina evacuees
- DNC day 2: will America accept First Lady Michelle?
- Loving Billie Holiday doesn't mean Black girls aren't suffering: a response to Joshua DuBois and My Brother's Keeper
- Teaching African American literature during COVID-19
- Banning Toni Morrison's books doesn't protect kids. It just sanitizes racism
- Ancient histories and new worlds: Allison Janae Hamilton.