Bambara, Toni Cade. "How She Came by Her Name," in her Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions, Pantheon Books, 1996, pp. 201-45.
In this collection of Bambara's later writings is included an interview with the author, discussing her early career as a writer and essayist.
Burks, Ruth Elizabeth. "From Baptism to Resurrection; Toni Cade Bambara and the Incongruity of Language," in Black Women Writers, edited by Mari Evans, Doubleday, 1984, pp. 48-57.
Burks discusses what she sees as the spiritual power of Bambara's.....
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