Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Toni Cade Bambara

• Title

  Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

• Date 1999
• ISBN 0679774076
• Publisher New York, NY: Vintage Books
• Description xi, 255 p; 8 in
• Language English
• Collections Residency Collection, Workshops
• Summary

  On December 9, 1995, Toni Cade Bambara died of cancer at the age of 56. In its obituary of her, The New York Times called Bambara, "a major contributor to the emerging genre of black women's literature." Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions offers an expected treasure: a rich selection of Bambara's writings, most of which have never before appeared in print.

• Tags Collections, Essay collection, Biography, Interview, Short stories, Black Feminism, African American studies, Black Studies