SOURCE: "Youth in Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, My Love" in The Southern Quarterly, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Fall, 1983, pp. 81-99.
In the following essay, Hargrove lauds Bambara's portrayal of young characters in her first short fiction collection, maintaining that one of her "special gifts as a writer of fiction is her ability to portray with sensitivity and compassion the experiences of children from their point of view. "
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