whatever happened to interracial love book review

Collins doesn't tell a story as much as she allows a story to tell itself.

Collins died in 1988 at the age of forty-six.' This collection of Collins' previously undiscovered stories was published in 2016 and it's a great addition to the genre. Her film Losing Ground is one of the first features made by a black woman in America, and is an extremely rare narrative portrayal of a black female intellectual. Read moreįrom the jacket cover: 'Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African American playwright, filmmaker, civil rights activist, film editor, and educator. Collins’s work seamlessly integrates the African-American experience in her characters’ lives, creating rich, devastatingly familiar, full-bodied men, women, and children who transcend the symbolic, penetrating both the reader’s head and heart.īoth contemporary and timeless, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? is a major addition to the literary canon, and is sure to earn Kathleen Collins the widespread recognition she is long overdue. In “Only Once,” a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate-and final-act of foolishness.

In “The Uncle,” a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives.

Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, exploring deep, far-reaching issues-race, gender, family, and sexuality-that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. Now available in Ecco’s Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker-a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paley-whose prescient work has recently resurfaced to wide acclaim

Whatever happened to interracial love book review