Chronicles I, Prose Poems by Anita Cornwell
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Title
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Chronicles I, Prose Poems by Anita Cornwell
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Description
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Anita Cornwell (1923 - 2023). The document opens with a dedication to Cornwell’s mother and a short biography highlighting her career as a writer and playwright, followed by the table of contents that lists five poems.
They are:
1. First Love and Other Traumas
2. Second Coming
3. Sordid Mansions
4. In Praise of the Foremothers
5. Remembrance of Sister-Love
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Cornwell is known as the "first Black female writer to publicly identify as a lesbian in print." (Reyes, “Anita Cornwell, Groundbreaking Black Lesbian Feminist Writer, Has Died at 99.”)
While Cornwell was a prolific writer, much of her work, like Chronicles I, remain unpublished. Cornwell faced publishers who were unwilling to publish work by an unabashed Black lesbian.
Wit López explored Cornwell's role among the "elders and ancestors who laid the foundation for many Black LGBTQ+ advocates, thinkers, artists, and writers to be open about our identities in our lives and our work" in the digital exhibition, Chronicling Resistance.
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Chronicling Resistance
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Contributor
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John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT Community Center
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Date Created
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1986
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Creator
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Cornwell, Anita
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Rights
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Identifier
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Ms. Coll. 127
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Language
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eng
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Format
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Text
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Extent
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34 pages
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Spatial Coverage
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Philadelphia, PA
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Publisher
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Sojourner Truth Press
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Is Part Of
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Anita Cornwell personal and literary papers, 1949-2009
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Subject
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Prose poems, American
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Poets, American
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Playwriting
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Lesbians
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African American women
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Patriarchy in literature
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Bibliographic Citation
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Reyes, Juliana Feliciano. “Anita Cornwell, Groundbreaking Black Lesbian Feminist Writer, Has Died at 99.” Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA), June 5, 2023. https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/anita-cornwell-dies-black-lesbian-feminist-essays-philadelphia-20230605.html.
