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Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation
- January 19, 2007
Pearl Cleage --
Selected Bibliography
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01/02/07)
Pearl Cleage, best-selling author, performance artist and
political activist, is the featured speaker at the 2007 Martin Luther
King Jr. Convocation. Her speech for this event is entitled
“A Knock at Midnight: The Writer’s Role in Wartime.”
Cleage is one of Atlanta’s most socially engaged and
artistically renowned residents, and in her writing, she draws on her
experiences as an activist for AIDS and women's rights, and she cites
the rhythms of black life as her muse. Cleage is an artistic associate
of the Just Us Theatre Company, the founding editor of Catalyst
magazine and a contributing editor to Essence. The author of
more than a dozen plays and several novels, Pearl Cleage now teaches at
Spelman College, her alma mater, where she holds the Cosby Endowed Chair
for the Humanities.
BOOKS
Cleage, Pearl. Baby Brother's blues,
Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, Available at
DeKalb County Public
Library
Cleage, Pearl. Babylon sisters: a
novel, New York: One World/Ballantine Books, 2005. Available
at DeKalb County Public Library
and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl. Blues for an Alabama
sky, New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1999. Available
through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl. Bourbon at the border, New
York: Dramatists Play Service,
2005. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl. The brass bed and
other stories, Chicago: Third World Press, 1991. PS3553.L389
B73 DISPLAY-LIB
Cleage, Pearl. Chain In The
Best American short plays 1999-2000, New York: Applause, 2001.
Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl. Deals with the Devil,
and other reasons to riot, New York: Ballantine, 1994. E185.615
.C625 DISPLAY-LIB
Cleage, Pearl. Flyin' west and other
plays, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1999. PS3553.L389
A6 DISPLAY-LIB
Cleage, Pearl. I wish I had a red
dress: a novel, New York: William Morrow, 2001. Available
at DeKalb County Public Library
and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl. Lessons, In
Double stitch: Black women write about mothers & daughters
edited by Bell-Scott, Patricia. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.
PS509.M6 D6 DISPLAY-LIB
Cleage, Pearl. Mad at miles: a blackwoman's
guide to truth, [Southfield, Mich.]: Cleage Group Publication,
1990. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl. Some things I never
thought I'd do, New York: One World/Ballantine Books, 2003.
Available at DeKalb
County Public Library and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl & Burnett, Zaron W. We
speak your names: a celebration, New York: One World/Ballantine
Books, 2005. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Cleage, Pearl. What looks like crazy
on an ordinary day-- : a novel, New York: Avon Books, 1997.
Available at DeKalb
County Public Library and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Robotham, Rosemarie, Angelou, Maya & Cleage,
Pearl. Mending the world: stories of family by contemporary
black writers, New York, NY : BasicCivitas Books, 2004. Available
through Interlibrary
Loan.
Selected Articles and Book Reviews
Bashir, Samiya A. Pearl
Cleage's Idlewild Idylls. Black Issues Book Review, Jul/Aug2001,
3 (4) 
Cleage, Pearl. Learning
to say no. Essence, Feb2004, 34 (10)
Cleage, Pearl. Rebels
with a cause. Essence, Oct2006, 37 (6)
Collins, Patricia Hill. What's
in a name? womanism, black feminism, and beyond Black scholar. Journal
of Black Studies and Research, Winter/Spring 1996, 26 (1)
Davis, Bernadette Adams. Remembering
Mama: images of mothers, good, bad, real or fictive abound in our literary
tradition. Black Issues Book Review, May/Jun2005, 7 (3)
Giles, Freda Scott. The
motion of herstory: three plays by Pearl Cleage. African American
Review, Winter97, 31 (4)
Giles, Freda Scott. Bourbon
at the Border. African American Review, Winter 1997, 31
(4)
Glenn, Gwendolyn. Home
time and island time: novelist Pearl Cleage finds inspiration just outside
her window in Southwest Atlanta, while Paule Marshall has twice drawn
on a long ago trip to Grenada. Black Issues Book Review, Mar/Apr2004,
6 (2)
Gray, Herman. Black
masculinity and visual culture. Callaloo, Spring 1995,
18 (2) 
King, Lovalerie. A
healing romance for the plague years. Callaloo, Spring
2002, 25 (2)
Lewis, Nghana tamu. In
a different chord: interpreting the relations among Black female sexuality,
agency, and the Blues. African American Review, Winter
2003, 37 (4)
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane. Telling
grown folks' business. Essence, Mar2006, 36 (11)
Osborne, Gwendolyn. Babylon
Sisters. Library Journal, 6/1/2005, 130 (10)
Pearl
Cleage. Essence, Mar2005, 35 (11)
Ratner, Rochelle. We
speak your names: a celebration. Library Journal, 10/15/2006,
131 (17)
Roberts, Tara. Pearls
of wisdom. Essence, Dec97, 28 (8)
Tatum, Stephen.
Postfrontier horizons. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Summer
2004, 50 (2)
Websites
Author Profile: Pearl Cleage - http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-cleage-pearl.asp
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Pearl Cleage - http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2564
Pearl Cleage - http://authors.aalbc.com/cleagepearl.htm
Women of Color Women of Word -- African American Female
...Pearl Cleage- Biographical Information - http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/cleage2.html
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