Monday, June 24, 2013

Did Toni Cade Bambara have children, family?

In reading Toni Cade Bambara's story, "Raymond's Run," one
might believe that she may have written from personal experience. She writes as the
narrator of the story who finds satisfaction in helping her brother rather than pursuing
her own ambitions. It is quite possible that she learned this growing up. Bambara was
raised with her brother by a single mother. In the neighborhoods in which she was
raised, she found supportive women who encouraged her with liberal advice. As an
author...



One
of Bambara’s major themes is that a strong ethic of caring for and helping one another
sustains African
Americans.



She was a
civic-minded activist. I can find no mention that she was married. She was born with the
last name of "Cade," but took…


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...the name of a West African ethnic
group Bambara.



This
name, she felt, sounded good with her own name, and also her child's name: Bambara
did have one daughter named Karma Bene
Bambara.


Perhaps, then, Bambara's ability to speak so
clearly through the eyes of a youngster comes from memories of growing up, and/or
watching her own daughter grow.

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