Bambara's feisty girls: resistance narratives in Gorilla, My Love.(Toni Cade Bambara)(Critical Essay) From: African American Review | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Muther, Elizabeth | COPYRIGHT 2002 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When Thunderbuns, the "big and bad matron," charges the aisle of the movie theater in Toni Cade Bambara's story "Gorilla, My Love," the kids finally "shut up and watch the simple ass picture" (Gorilla 15). She is the "colored" matron, the one the establishment lets out "in case of emergency," when potato chip bags start exploding and the kids are turning the place out. Thunderbuns is the figure of co-opted black power. As such, she stands as the dead opposite of Bambara's feisty, ...