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All the Stories Are True: African American Writers Speak exhibition records

Object Details

Scope and Contents
Audiovisual materials created for an exhibition on the rich tradition of African American storytelling, which is celebrated through videotaped interviews with professional writers telling compelling stories drawn from their own experiences and revealing how the world in which they live impacts their writing. A portion of the exhibition is devoted to African American children's literature and original art used in books for young readers. The exhibition showcases some of the most engaging writers on the scene today. They are Haitian-born novelist Edwidge Danticat whose current best seller, The Dew Breaker, explores the complex lives and conflicts of her native country. Other featured writers include: science fiction writers Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler; Valerie Boyd, author of the award-winning biography of Zora Neale Hurston; Washington poet Kenny Carroll; Charles Johnson, winner of the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage; and Walter Dean Myers, who has built a sub-specialty in literature for children and young adults.
Date
2003-2004
Extent
10 Sound recordings (5 CD-RW audio recordings ; 5 MiniDisc audio recordings)
45 Video recordings (5 DigiBeta video recordings; 2 Betacam SP video recordings; 9 DVCAM video recordings; 19 miniDV video recordings; 10 DVD-R video recordings)
1 Boxe (1 box of index card video logs)
0.75 Linear feet (3 boxes)
Citation
All the Stories Are True: African American Writers Speak audiovisual records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Video recordings
Topic
Museum exhibits
Authors
African Americans
Identifier
ACMA.03-060
All the Stories Are True cover
Finding aid
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