House Where My Soul Lives

An Introduction to Margaret Walker: The Woman We Thought We Knew

Part I: "Southern Song," 1915-1932 (Birmingham and New Orleans)
1. In this Place where I was Born
2. A Preacher's Daughter
3. "The fire burning within"
4. "Get her out of the South"
5. Goodbye New Orleans

Part II: Growing Out of Shadow, 1933-1938 (Chicago)
6."The house where my soul lives"
7. Brave New World
8. Colleagues and Comrades: South Side Writers
9. "Marriage is a green apple"
10. The Author of "For My People"

Part III: No Enemies Save Myself 1938-1943 (Iowa, New Orleans, New York)
11. Dear Dick
12. "As low down as the blues let you be"
13. "Time is a mighty healer"
14. A Year of New Beginnings
15. October Journey

Part IV: Good Times in Difficult Years 1944-1963 (NC; Jackson, MS)
16. "Find somebody to love"
17. "Every child is a book I didn't write"
18. "The walls of my prison house"
19. "All my roots are gathered in one place"
20. "Turn loose and sink or swim"

Part V: A Not So Quiet Radical, 1964-1975 (Iowa and Jackson, MS)
21. Jubilee: a Community of Memory
22. A Woman of Ideas
23. "To teach, to lead, to learn to change the world"
24. Midwife to a Movement

Part VI: Unholy Wars 1976-1986 (Mississippi)
25. On Being Female, Black and Free
26. Fame and infamy
27. Making Peace with my Soul: A Daemonic Genius
28. The Outlaw Spirit Prevails

Part VII: This Is My Century 1987-1998 (Mississippi)
29. Politics and Possibilities
30. "Reaping the whirlwind"
31. "Call Me Cassandra"

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• Teorias literárias
• Biografia: literária
• Estudos literários: poesia e poetas