What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     xi
Family and History
A Slow Walk of Trees (as Grandmother Would Say), Hopeless (as Grandfather Would Say)     3
She and Me     15
What the Black Woman Thinks about Women's Lib     18
A Knowing So Deep     31
Behind the Making of The Black Book     34
Rediscovering Black History     39
Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation     56
The Site of Memory     65
Writers and Writing
On Behalf of Henry Dumas     83
Preface to Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions by Toni Cade Bambara     86
James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language     90
Speaking of Reynolds Price     95
To Be a Black Woman: Review of Portraits in Fact and Fiction     100
The Family Came First: Review of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow     103
Toni Morrison on a Book She Loves: Gayl Jones's Corregidora     108
Going Home with Bitterness and Joy: Review of South to a Very Old Place by Albert Murray     111
On The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye     118
Foreword to The Harlem Book of the Dead     133
Foreword to Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940     135
TheFisherwoman: Introduction to A Kind of Rapture: Photographs     138
Politics and Society
On the Backs of Blacks     145
The Talk of the Town     149
The Dead of September 11     154
For a Heroic Writers Movement     156
Remarks Given at the Howard University Charter Day Convocation     164
The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations     170
The Dancing Mind     187
How Can Values Be Taught in the University     191
The Nobel Lecture in Literature     198
Index     209