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Title
Tina McElroy Ansa interview, 1993 October
Creator
Ansa, Tina McElroy
Contributor
Martinson, Connie
Date Created and/or Issued
1993-10
Publication Information
The Drucker Institute
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Connie Martinson Talks Books
Rights Information
All rights are retained by The Drucker Institute. For permission to use this item, contact The Drucker Institute, https://www.drucker.institute/about/drucker-archives/
Description
Tina begins the interview talking about some of the main themes in her novel like sisterhood and love, and freedom and motherhood. For the major of the interview, Tina discusses the characters and their relationships in the novel’s past and present. In particular, she talks about the expectations of motherhood and what happens to a family when the mother in the family stops being a mother, of listening to her children and loving them. Near the end of the interview, Tina reads several paragraphs from her novel. The interview closes with Tina talking about the power of love in bonding siblings.
Type
moving image
Format
video/f4v
00:13:47
Identifier
cmt01166_0001.f4v
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cmt/id/1450
Language
English
Subject
African American women - Fiction
Sisters - Fiction
Georgia - Fiction
Source
U-matic tape: Excerpt of show with Martinson interviewing Tina McElroy Ansa before commercial break and Judith Fein after the break
Relation
Connie Martinson Talks Books - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cmt

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