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    Savoring the Salt
    The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara

    Linda J Holmes (Edited by), Cheryl A Wall (Edited by)

    9781592136254

    Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2007

    320 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.426 kg

    In Savoring the Salt, a host of poets, scholars, writers, political activists and filmmakers recall Toni Cade Bambara, a woman whose voice and vision played a vital role in shaping African American culture in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

    Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
    Edited by
    Linda J. Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall
    With a Foreword by Pearl Cleage
    July 2006
    Annotation: * means previously published

    Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
     Table of Contents


    Foreword            Pearl Cleage

    Linda J. Holmes and
    Cheryl A. Wall        Introduction       
                               
    Linda J. Holmes        "Poised for the Light"   

    Cheryl A. Wall        "Toni's Obligato: Bambara and the African American
                    Literary Tradition"                 


    Part I - Writing From Laughter, Writing From Rage
               

    Toni Cade Bambara        "A Sort of Preface" from Gorilla, My Love*  

    Salamishah Tillett        "'Straight-Up Fiction': Sittin' Down with Gorilla, My Love"

    Kalamu ya Salaam        "Searching for the Mother Tongue" *

    Eleanor Traylor         "The Language of Soul in Toni Cade Bambara's Re/Conceived Academy"

    Anne Wicke            Bambara in Translation

    Valerie Boyd            "'She was just outrageously brilliant': Toni Morrison remembers

                    Toni Cade Bambara"*

    Nikky Finney            "The Making of Paper"*


    Part II - "Making Revolution Irresistible"


    Toni Cade Bambara        From The Vietnam Notebooks

    Jayne Cortez            "Toni. . . she was who she was"   

    Amiri Baraka            "Make the Revolution!"*       

    Beverly Guy-Sheftall        Black Feminist Foremother *

    Paula J. Giddings        "At the edge of the world"       

    Farah Jasmine Griffin        "How do you measure a revolution?"

    Kristin Hunter Lattany    "Drive This Thing"           


    Part III - Teaching Usable Truths


    Toni Cade Bambara        From "The Children Who Got Cheated"*

    Audre Lorde            "Dear Toni" [poem] *

    Nikki Giovanni        "We Drove Together"       

    Linda J. Holmes        "Lessons in Boldness 101"       

    Jan Carew            "A Timeless Truthteller"               
                   
    Pepsi Charles            "T.C.B. -- Taking Care of Business"   

    Rudolph Byrd            "The Feeling of Transport"       

    Abena Busia            "Teaching Toni Cade Bambara Teaching"

    Ruby Dee            Poem*                   


    Part IV - Guerrilla Filmmaking

     
    Toni Cade Bambara        "Why Black Cinema?"*

    Aishah Shadidah Simmons    "Asserting My In(ter)dependence: The Evolution of No!" 
               
    Frances NegrÓn-Mutaner    "Things That Toni Taught Me": A Filmmaker Reflects     

    Part V - "Having to be whole to see whole"


    Toni Cade Bambara        From Those Bones Are Not My Child*

    Bettina Aptheker        Toni Cade Bambara: A Political Life of the Spirit

    Avery Gordon        "something more powerful than skepticism"*

    Sonia Sanchez        "Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara" [Poem]*

     
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