Breaking Ice:
An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
edited by Terry McMillan
"...any voice we accomplish is really many voices, and the most powerful voices are always steeped in unutterable silences. A story is a formula for extracting meaning from chaos, a handful of water we scoop up to recall an ocean. Nothing really stands still for this reduction, this abstraction. We need readers who are willing to be co-conspirators..."
-from the preface by John Edgar Wideman
"A striking collection of works from authors both established and emerging, this is the first original anthology of african-american writing in over a decade"- jacket copy, 1990
20 years later, this seminal anthology featuring works from Tina McElroy Ansa, J. California Cooper, Ntozake Shange and more than 50 other talented African-American authors is still a valuable and valiant contribution to literature.
