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Sto caricando le informazioni... Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse (edizione 2022)di Alora Young (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaWalking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse di Alora Young
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An ambitious project that comes together so beautifully. Alora paints a picture of her foremothers imagining the details of their daily lives while sharing a powerful narrative about protecting childhood, transitioning to womanhood and being a Black woman in America through the centuries including present day. The author’s audiobook narration is moving and powerful and adds to the already exceptional piece. ( ) I'm impressed that someone so young was able to produce a work that will hopefully be read by their own family for generations to come. While some entries were repetitive and did not add to the overall memoir, this novel in verse had a lot to offer, and I could see this being offered to middle-grade, young adult, and adult audiences alike. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Alora in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman. The lives of these women come together to form a narrative that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in the American South. Each poem is a story-in-verse and together they form an arresting saga. Both heart-wrenching and inspiring, this unique family memoir finds joy and pride where others might only see despair. Informed by archival research, the will and testament of a slaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those most often muted: Black girls and women in America."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)811.6Literature English (North America) American poetry 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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