SOURCE: "'I Wish I Was a Poet': The Character as Artist in Alice Childress's Like One of the Family," Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 14, 1980, pp. 24-30.
Harris is an educator. In the following essay, she discusses Mildred, Childress's narrator in Like One of the Family, and her position in oral and written African-American literature.
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