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"A Sort of Preface" is a short piece of prose written by Toni Cade Bambara, extracted from "Gorilla, My love", which was published in 1984.
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Prose Commentary "A Sort of Preface" is a short piece of prose written by Toni Cade Bambara, extracted from "Gorilla, My love", which was published in 1984. It can be classified as narrative prose and is written in the first person. It consists of 3 paragraphs of varying length. The subject of this piece can be interpreted as to be one side of an argument on why not to write autobiographical fiction. The piece is set in Brooklyn, New York in the 1940s. According to the name of the author, the easy laid-back tone of the text, background information it can be assumed that the narrator is a black female. From the way she speaks about her mother, it can also be assumed that she is either a teenager or a young woman. She starts off stating that it "does no good to write autobiographical fiction" and continues to elaborate on the...
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