Whatever Happened to Interracial Love - Stories

Zusatztext “[Collins’] stories are intense meditations on love, heartbreak, youthful ennui, gender, and race...The stories in this collection are often conversational and candid, as though the reader has been invited to have a chat with the narrator...There are shades in the intimacy and urgency of Collins’ writing of Lorraine Hansberry and Zora Neale Hurston...Sharp and lovely...Collins’ work will certainly be canonized now, but what a shame that didn’t happen earlier.” Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Collins, who died in 1988 at age forty-six, was an African-American playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, and educator from Jersey City. She was the first black woman to produce a feature length film. Klappentext A collection of newly discovered and never-before-published stories by the late Kathleen Collins, a brilliant yet little-known African American writer, artist, and filmmaker. Exuberant, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, these sixteen stories by Kathleen Collins explore deep, far-reaching issues?relating to race, gender, family, and sexuality?that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. Collins?s work masterfully blends the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, seamlessly integrating the African American experience into her characters? lives and creating rich and devastatingly familiar characters who transcend symbolism. In ?The Uncle,? a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives. In ?Only Once,? a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate?and final?act of foolishness. And in the title story, a recent college graduate realizes the limits of the civil rights movement?and the personal and romantic consequences it holds for her. Both contemporary and timeless, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? is a major and long- overdue addition to our literary canon. Zusammenfassung A collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker—a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paley—whose prescient work has recently resurfaced to wide acclaim, now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, exploring deep, far-reaching issues—race, gender, family, and sexuality—that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. In “The Uncle,” a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives. In “Only Once,” a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate—and final—act of foolishness. Collins’s work seamlessly integrates the African-American experience in her characters’ lives, creating rich, devastatingly familiar, full-bodied men, women, and children who transcend the symbolic, penetrating both the reader’s head and heart. Both contemporary and timeless, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? is a major addition to the literary canon, and is sure to earn Kathleen Collins the widespread recognition she is long overdue. This book is part of a special series from Harper Perennial called Olive Editions—exclusive small-format editions of some of our bestselling and celebrated titles, featuring beautiful and unique hand-drawn cover illustrations. All Olive Editions are available for a limited time only.  ...

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"In this slim, devastating collection, Kathleen Collins writes of interracial America like no one before or since. This is a daringly complex vision of both blackness and whiteness by a writer who was utterly ahead of her time." - Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia
Kathleen Collins writes with an immediacy and vividness that is exhilarating to read. She inhabits a landscape that sidesteps political or sexual correctness in favor of emotional truth-telling...Throughout it all there is a brio that is contagious. - Daphne Merkin
"These stories offer a sharp, clear, unsentimental vision of race in the sixties, the mingling of politics and desire, the search for place that will be both exotic and familiar to modern readers, richly historical and utterly recognizable." - Katie Roiphe
"[A] lost treasure... this jewel of a book illuminates big timeless themes of familial ties and self-determination, group affinity and individualism, lovers and the power plays between them in a way that feels completely new.". - American Publishers Association
"[Collins'] stories are intense meditations on love, heartbreak, youthful ennui, gender, and race...The stories in this collection are often conversational and candid, as though the reader has been invited to have a chat with the narrator...There are shades in the intimacy and urgency of Collins' writing of Lorraine Hansberry and Zora Neale Hurston...Sharp and lovely...Collins' work will certainly be canonized now, but what a shame that didn't happen earlier." - Slate
"[Explores] the brutal battlefield of uneven relationships, the joys and paradoxes of black identity, the eternal struggle between mind and body...This is the magic of Collins's voice: the firm belief that even the most private of metamorphoses sends out ripple effects far into the real world." - Village Voice
"Collins can work wonders with a single line...[her] voice is so original...The best reason to read this book is simply that it is fantastic: original, provocative, revelatory and bursting with life." - Los Angeles Times
"Her tableaux and vignettes take place decades in the past, yet the question of the title story seems more relevant than ever... [A] impressionistic, psychologically observant collection...In poignant, searching scenes and contemplations, readers will be reintroduced to a great and under-appreciated creative talent." - Huffington Post
"The best of these stories are a revelation. Ms. Collins had a gift for illuminating what the critic Albert Murray called the "black intramural class struggle," and two or three of her stories are so sensitive and sharp and political and sexy I suspect they will be widely anthologized." - Dwight Garner, New York Times
"The collection offers a stimulating glimpse at a roller-coaster era for civil rights. They take place where activism and love intersect...Collins's writing has much in common with Grace Paley's wry vignettes of New York intellectuals. Her voice is sharp and sophisticated but leavened by vulnerability and self-deprecation." - Wall Street Journal
"The writing is practically visceral; straightforward and crisp, leaving you wanting more and thinking about what you just read." - Book Riot
"This previously unpublished collection of her stories will have many readers wishing they'd seen her work before. Offered here are acute and lucidly rendered narratives ... With a quick but searing touch of the brush, Collins crosses racial, gender, and generational divides, and her readers will, too." - Library Journal
"Fresh and energetic." - Harper's Magazine

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kathleen Collins
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.09.2022
• EAN: 9780063265141
• ISBN: 978-0-06-326514-1
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 114 mm x 181 mm x 14 mm
• Serie: Harper Perennial Olive Editions
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Short Stories, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, FICTION: Romance / African American & Black, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN, LITERATURE: SHORT STORIES, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / African American & Black, Classic fiction: general and literary, Literature / General Fiction, Women's Literature / Literature/Fiction, Literature / African American, Literature / Short Stories