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IN BLACK AND WHITE:
Conversations with African American Writers
Six 30 minute programs for HS-Adult

THREE WOMEN WRITERS                          
A Conversation with Toni Morrison, 27 minutes
A Conversation with Gloria Naylor, 22 minutes
A Conversation with Alice Walker, 30 minutes

African American women writers are among the most distinctive and eloquent voices in contemporary American writing. These three portraits show why.

Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, a leading advocate for a new multicultural canon, explains why "American literature is incoherent without the contribution of African Americans."

Novelist Gloria Naylor discusses how she has explored what it means to be black in America today across a broad social spectrum in The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills and Mama Day.

Finally, Alice Walker explains the "womanist" perspective which informs her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple and more recent works such as Possessing the Secret of Joy "Being black, being a woman, being a writer is like having three eyes, three hearts," she confides. "I feel blessed."

Producer: RTSI Swiss TV, 1992
Director: Matteo Bellinelli
Writer: Dr. Barbara Christian

THREE MEN WRITERS

A Conversation with Charles Johnson, 29 minutes
A Conversation with John Wideman, 26 minutes
A Conversation with August Wilson, 22 minutes

These "video prefaces" introduce students to three of the most challenging minds in the current black intellectual renaissance.

A Conversation with Charles Johnson describes how he blends black folktales, Zen parables, 18th century picaresque novels and 20th century existential philosophy in such novels as National Book Award winner ihe Middle Passage.

In A Conversation with  John Wideman, MacArthur Genius Award winner John Wideman, discusses the intimate connections between Homewood, the Pittsburgh ghetto of his birth, and his novels Damballah and The Hiding Place and his memoir, Brothers and Keepers.

August Wilson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Fences, The Piano Lesson and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, explains his on-going project to write a play describing African American life set in each decade of this century in A Conversation with August Wilson.

Producer: RTSI Swiss TV 1992
Director: Mattec Bellinelli
Writer: Dr. Barbara Christian

An excellent selection for American Literature courses and Women's Studies programs...An important primary source for any one interested in African American writing." -Video Rating Guide for Libraries

"A valuable introduction to contemporary African American "Writers. -Booklist

"The whole series reveals how rich and varied are the hearts and minds behind African American writing." -Library Journal

"Thought-provoking...Serves as a fine introduction to the works of these authors." -Video Librarian

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