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The portable promised land : stories, Touré, (electronic resource)

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Summary
A collection of short stories takes place in the utopian world of Soul City and includes such tales as "The Sad, Sweet Story of Sugar Lips Shinehot" and "Afrolexicology: Today's Bi-Annual List of the Top 50 Words in African America."
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (vi, 256 p.)
Contents
  • Prologue
  • The Steviewondermobile
  • A hot time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the spectacular final Sunday sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love
  • The breakup ceremony
  • The sad, sweet story of Sugar Lips Shinehot, the man with the portable Promised Land
  • Afrolexicology Today's biannual list of the top fifty words in African-America
  • Blackmanwalkin
  • Attack of the love dogma
  • My history
  • The playground of the ecstatically blasé
  • The African-American Aesthetics Hall of Fame, or 101 elements of Blackness (Things that'll make you say: Yes! That there's some really Black shit!)
  • Solomon's big day : a children's story
  • It's life and death at the Slush Puppie Open
  • How Babe Ruth saved my life
  • We words : my favorite things
  • Soul City Gazette profile: Crash Jinkins, last of the chronic crashees
  • A guest!
  • You are who you kill : the Black Widow story
  • Young, Black, and unstoppable, or Death of a Zietgeist jockey : the Black Widow prequel and sequel
  • Once an Oreo, always an Oreo : the Black Widow finale
  • The commercial channel : a unique business opportunity
  • Falcon Malone can fly no mo
  • The Sambomorphosis
  • They're playing my song
  • Yesterday is so long ago
  • Shout-outs
Isbn
9780316076999
Link
http://sfpl.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=04835835-D9C0-4031-8907-2C8D9949DD9F
Instance
Label
The portable promised land : stories
Title
The portable promised land
Title remainder
stories
Statement of responsibility
Touré
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A collection of short stories takes place in the utopian world of Soul City and includes such tales as "The Sad, Sweet Story of Sugar Lips Shinehot" and "Afrolexicology: Today's Bi-Annual List of the Top 50 Words in African America."
Cataloging source
TEFOD
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1971-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Touré
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3570.O768
LC item number
P67 2002eb
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • African Americans
  • City and town life
  • United States
Label
The portable promised land : stories, Touré, (electronic resource)
Link
http://sfpl.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=04835835-D9C0-4031-8907-2C8D9949DD9F
Instantiates
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue -- The Steviewondermobile -- A hot time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the spectacular final Sunday sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love -- The breakup ceremony -- The sad, sweet story of Sugar Lips Shinehot, the man with the portable Promised Land -- Afrolexicology Today's biannual list of the top fifty words in African-America -- Blackmanwalkin -- Attack of the love dogma -- My history -- The playground of the ecstatically blasé -- The African-American Aesthetics Hall of Fame, or 101 elements of Blackness (Things that'll make you say: Yes! That there's some really Black shit!) -- Solomon's big day : a children's story -- It's life and death at the Slush Puppie Open -- How Babe Ruth saved my life -- We words : my favorite things -- Soul City Gazette profile: Crash Jinkins, last of the chronic crashees -- A guest! -- You are who you kill : the Black Widow story -- Young, Black, and unstoppable, or Death of a Zietgeist jockey : the Black Widow prequel and sequel -- Once an Oreo, always an Oreo : the Black Widow finale -- The commercial channel : a unique business opportunity -- Falcon Malone can fly no mo -- The Sambomorphosis -- They're playing my song -- Yesterday is so long ago -- Shout-outs
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (vi, 256 p.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780316076999
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)773579847
Label
The portable promised land : stories, Touré, (electronic resource)
Link
http://sfpl.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=04835835-D9C0-4031-8907-2C8D9949DD9F
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue -- The Steviewondermobile -- A hot time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the spectacular final Sunday sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love -- The breakup ceremony -- The sad, sweet story of Sugar Lips Shinehot, the man with the portable Promised Land -- Afrolexicology Today's biannual list of the top fifty words in African-America -- Blackmanwalkin -- Attack of the love dogma -- My history -- The playground of the ecstatically blasé -- The African-American Aesthetics Hall of Fame, or 101 elements of Blackness (Things that'll make you say: Yes! That there's some really Black shit!) -- Solomon's big day : a children's story -- It's life and death at the Slush Puppie Open -- How Babe Ruth saved my life -- We words : my favorite things -- Soul City Gazette profile: Crash Jinkins, last of the chronic crashees -- A guest! -- You are who you kill : the Black Widow story -- Young, Black, and unstoppable, or Death of a Zietgeist jockey : the Black Widow prequel and sequel -- Once an Oreo, always an Oreo : the Black Widow finale -- The commercial channel : a unique business opportunity -- Falcon Malone can fly no mo -- The Sambomorphosis -- They're playing my song -- Yesterday is so long ago -- Shout-outs
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (vi, 256 p.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780316076999
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)773579847

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