Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories
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A collection of newly discovered and never-before-published stories by the late Kathleen Collins, a brilliant yet little-known African American writer, artist, and filmmaker.
Exuberant, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, these sixteen stories by Kathleen Collins explore deep, far-reaching issues—relating to race, gender, family, and sexuality—that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. Collins’s work masterfully blends the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, seamlessly integrating the African American experience into her characters’ lives and creating rich and devastatingly familiar characters who transcend symbolism.
In “The Uncle,” a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives. In “Only Once,” a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate—and final—act of foolishness. And in the title story, a recent college graduate realizes the limits of the civil rights movement—and the personal and romantic consequences it holds for her.
Both contemporary and timeless, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? is a major and long- overdue addition to our literary canon.
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Kathleen Collins. (2016). Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kathleen Collins. 2016. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories. HarperCollins.
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A collection of newly discovered and never-before-published stories by the late Kathleen Collins, a brilliant yet little-known African American writer, artist, and filmmaker.
Exuberant, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, these sixteen stories by Kathleen Collins explore deep, far-reaching issues—relating to race, gender, family, and sexuality—that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. Collins’s work masterfully blends the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, seamlessly integrating the African American experience into her characters’ lives and creating rich and devastatingly familiar characters who transcend symbolism.
In “The Uncle,” a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives. In “Only Once,” a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate—and final—act of foolishness. And in the title story, a recent college graduate realizes the limits of the civil rights movement—and the personal and romantic consequences it holds for her.
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"From the first page you know you're in the hands of an exceptional writer... Collins' stories are passionate and light-footed, angry but also delicate - they move like quicksilver... She's deliciously funny. She speaks of the many-sided lives of black women with care and intelligence. I adored this book." — Zadie Smith, author of Swing Time
"Sexy and radical and intimate." — Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man
"Sharp, tender, and precise—full of wit and pleasure. Reading [Collins] feels likes eavesdropping on an electric historical moment from a secret perch just above the kitchen table. I lost myself in these stories with a sense of wrestling and delight, grateful for the crackles and surprises they continually delivered." — Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
"These stories offer a sharp, clear, unsentimental vision of race in the sixties, the mingling of politics and desire, the search for place that will be both exotic and familiar to modern readers, richly historical and utterly recognizable." — Katie Roiphe
"[A] lost treasure... this jewel of a book illuminates big timeless themes of familial ties and self-determination, group affinity and individualism, lovers and the power plays between them in a way that feels completely new.". — American Publishers Association
"A posthumous masterpiece. . . . A triumph." — O, the Oprah Magazine
"In this slim, devastating collection, Kathleen Collins writes of interracial America like no one before or since. This is a daringly complex vision of both blackness and whiteness by a writer who was utterly ahead of her time." — Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia
Kathleen Collins writes with an immediacy and vividness that is exhilarating to read. She inhabits a landscape that sidesteps political or sexual correctness in favor of emotional truth-telling...Throughout it all there is a brio that is contagious. — Daphne Merkin
"Kathleen Collins has the dramatist's gift for multiple voices and viewpoints...How well she understands mixed motives, emotions and bloodlines. Histories and legacies at cross-purposes. Elective and compulsive affinities, both intellectual and erotic. How unlucky we were to lose her. And how lucky we are to have these stories." — Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland
"This book is one of the most eloquent statements I have read of what it was like to be black and young and alive in the 1960s. I applaud its publication." — Vivian Gornick, author of The Odd Woman and the City
"The best of these stories are a revelation. Ms. Collins had a gift for illuminating what the critic Albert Murray called the "black intramural class struggle," and two or three of her stories are so sensitive and sharp and political and sexy I suspect they will be widely anthologized." — Dwight Garner, New York Times
"It is a delightful literary discovery that the creator of the landmark film, 'Losing Ground,' also turned her hand to fiction. The stories collected here are witty and revealing, and together constitute an unearthed gem of black women's fiction." — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of And Still I Rise
"Collins can work wonders with a single line...[her] voice is so original...The best reason to read this book is simply that it is fantastic: original, provocative, revelatory and bursting with life." — Los Angeles Times
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Starred review from September 19, 2016
Race, gender, love, and sexuality are portrayed beautifully and humanely in this previously unpublished collection of stories from groundbreaking African-American filmmaker and civil rights activist Collins, who died in 1988 at the age of 46. Drawing on Collins’s career as a filmmaker and playwright, the stories incorporate stage directions, dramatic monologues, and camera-eye perspectives that frame the racial tension of the 1960s with both frankness and tenderness. “Exteriors” details a failing relationship from the outside, set up as a film scene through a lighting designer’s eye, while “Interiors” gives us the inner monologues from the perspectives of the couple in a failed marriage. The title story follows a group of interracial couples as each member explores his/her own identity while trying to fit in with the identity of the other. In the gripping “Only Once,” a woman recalls her thrill-seeking lover and his final act of recklessness. “The Happy Family” seems happy on the surface, but a closer look by the family’s friend reveals the cracks that broke the family apart. Full of candor, humor, and poise, this collection, so long undiscovered, will finally find the readers it deserves.
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Starred review from October 15, 2016
Published for the first time nearly 30 years after the author's death at age 46, this gorgeous and strikingly intimate short story collection focuses on the lives and loves of black Americans in the 1960s.In "Exteriors," an unseen narrator directs the lighting for a disintegrating marriage like a scene from a movie set. "Okay, now backlight the two of them asleep in the big double bed," says the voice. And then later: "take it way down. She looks too anxious and sad." "Interiors," the companion story, is a pair of reflective monologues, first the husband ("Sometimes I get the feeling that when I'm dead happiness is gonna rise up out of your soul and wreck havoc on life"), and then the wife ("the first time my husband left me, I took a small cabin in the woods, to enjoy a benevolent solitude"). The title story, wrenching and darkly hilarious, follows a circle of young interracial lovers through 1963, "the year of race-creed-color blindness." In "The Happy Family," the family's friend recounts the quiet tragedy of their slow unraveling; "When Love Withers All of Life Cries" documents the emotional landscape of a romance. A pioneering African-American playwright, filmmaker, and activist best known for her 1982 feature film Losing Ground, Collins has a spectacular sense of dialogue. These are stories where nothing happens and everything happens, stories that are at once sweeping and very, very small. Though most of the pieces span only a few pages, they are frequently overwhelmingly rich--not just in their sharp takes on sex, race, and relationships, but in the power and music of their sentences. Collins' prose is so precise and hypnotic that no amount of rereading it feels like enough. Astonishing and essential. A gem.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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A groundbreaking African American filmmaker and playwright, Collins died in 1988 at age 46, and this previously unpublished collection of her stories will have many readers wishing they'd seen her work before. Offered here are acute and lucidly rendered narratives spanning the civil rights era, often illustrating personal fallout. In the masterly title story, a young woman ("the only 'Negro' in her graduating class") contemplates marrying her white lover but senses her father's displeasure at this "indecent commingling." Elsewhere, a daughter who lets her hair frizz shocks her father by looking "just like any other colored girl," and a young woman devastated by the collapse of an adored uncle finally realizes that he proudly "refused to overcome his sorrow"--forced on him by society owing to the "blunt humiliation of his skin." VERDICT With a quick but searing touch of the brush, Collins crosses racial, gender, and generational divides, and her readers will, too.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Collins, a pioneering black female filmmaker whose Losing Ground (1982) had its first DVD release just this year, passed away in 1988, leaving behind this collection of tales that are complete without feeling completed. The stories are set in different eras. The earlier ones take place during the 1960s civil rights movement, and the later ones bring readers to South Africa divestment protests of the 1980s. As the provocative collection title suggests, interracial love is the chief romantic theme Collins explores in stories of varying lengths and complexity, but it's not her only focus. She also examines the different types of connections formed within African American family relationships across generations. And a few stories are wholly stream-of-consciousness. Each of Collins' stories leaves the reader wanting to know more about the characters and their creator, which makes this an intriguing and bittersweet publication of these stories long awaiting the attention they deserve.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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Never-before-published short stories by writer Collins comprise this new collection. Collins, who died in 1988 at age 46, counted Toni Morrison among her admirers.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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