Eileen M. Julien is Professor of Comparative Literature, African American and African Diaspora Studies, and French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington. She is Chairperson of the Department of Comparative Literature and author of African Novels and the Question of Orality (IUP, 1992).
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Contents<\> Contents Acknowledgments What I Keep in My Freezer; or You Are What You Eat Routines Oatmeal Collage A Streetcar Story A Glimmer of Gender Going to Algiers "Buttons, anyone?" A Pacific Street Story Room at the Top Connie The Jug's Ball "The Country" Facts of Life Money Troubles Fudge and Jelly Donuts The Shadow of Death A Woman's Place Brother Boyfriends The House They Didn't Buy Family Affairs She Would Have Typed All Night Small Victories Daddy's Public Voice Hurricane Betsy Groovin' Christmas '66 My Mother, My Hair Getting Over It Eunice, Mae, and Me Questions of Power Losing Mae Arriving Late Daddy's Gumbo Conversation Reflections Revisiting Birthday Surprise Dakar Hair The Carnival Spirit Katrina The Wake of the Storm The Keys
"This is a book to love, to savor like one of the Julien family gumbos... A wonderful portrait of middle-class blacks in a city usually portrayed by the poverty of its black population and the decadence of its whites. This is real life in New Orleans, in both its unique qualities and the universality of people in their common experiences, as well as a moving depiction of a loving relationship between a mother and a daughter." NChristine Wiltz, author of The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld "Julien recalls a culture and space threatened by erasure, that will for the most part be 'memory' or 'memoried,' recollected by those who knew it before and knew it as home." NAngeletta Gourdine, author of The Difference Place Makes