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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird Study Guide

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by Toni Cade Bambara
About 39 pages (11,786 words)
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First published in 1971, "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" was included the following year in Toni Cade Bambara's highly acclaimed first collection of short stories, Gorilla, My Love. Like most of Bambara's stories, "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" features strong African-American female characters and reflects social and political issues of particular concern to the contemporary African-American community. In the story, the young female narrator is playing with her neighbors and cousin at her grandmother's house. Two white filmmakers, shooting a film "about food stamps" for the county, lurk near their yard.

The narrator's grandmother asks them to leave: not heeding her request, they simply move farther away. When Granddaddy Cain returns from hunting a chicken hawk, he takes the camera from the men and smashes it. Cathy, the distant cousin of the narrator, displays a precocious ability to interpret other people's actions and words as well as an interest in storytelling and writing. Her intelligence and ambition echo Bambara's own accomplishments as well as the larger African-American storytelling tradition.

This complete Introduction contains 169 words. This study guide contains 11,786 words (approx. 39 pages at 300 words per page).

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