Machine generated contents note: PART 1 The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker
"I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People":
The Emergence of Margaret Walker ii
Black Women Writers at Work:
An Interview with Margaret Walker 28
Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South 44
Down from the Mountaintop 55
The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism":
Revolution, Vision, History 66
PART 2 From For My People to This Is My Century:
The Poetry of Margaret Walker
The "Etched Flame" of Margaret Walker: Literary and Biblical
Re-Creation in Southern History 81
Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in
the Poetry of Margaret Walker 98
"Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's
Folldoric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry 139
Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use
of Poetic "Folk Voice" 148
The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home 164
For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation 179
Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century 187
PART 3 Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice
Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works
"Oh Freedom": Women and History
in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 209
Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 225
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female
Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 231
"Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style 241
Jacqueline Miller Carmichael
The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 269
The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative 283
Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight 290
The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response
to the Character of Vyry 304
Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the
Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual 315
Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker 319