This book celebrates an intimate and profound link between women --
that between grandmother and granddaughter.
This collection of stories and vignettes -- a multicultural
anthology of women from diverse ethnic backgrounds -- reveals how
the mantle of culture and family is passed from woman to woman. As
they vividly explode stereotypes, the pieces illustrate not only
the courage of older women, but the received wisdom of younger
women.
Granddaughters remember their grandmothers as extraordinary
women at once defiant and tradition bound, loving and stubbornly
dogmatic. Some reinvent their grandmothers, others discover them
for the first time. For example, Mary Helen Washington unmasks the
word "freedpeople" in her grandmother's story to reveal the
widespread aggression against supposedly freed slaves. Beryl
Minkle's Bubba tells a tale of cultural and religious injustice
that includes the oppression of women. Noted Native American writer
Paula Gurin Allen reflects on her different cultural threads, as
she searches for her Lebanese great-grandmother for whom she was
named.
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