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Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof.
In Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof, Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) uses poignant and personal verse to trace the ill-fated life of the Congolese pygmy who was famously exhibited in the Bronx Zoo in 1906 before being taken in by the McCray family of Lynchburg, Virginia. Rooted in the rich hist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of South Carolina Press
2012.
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| Colección: | Palmetto poetry series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Night; Life in the Congo Forest; Fathers; Storm Warning; Dichotomy; Where Are the Hands?; The Girls in Ota's Forest; Ota's Courtship and Marriage; Kafi; Trail of the Mazungus; The Birth of Anthropology; Blues Man Answers; Hunters of Men; Strings I; Ota Crossing Big Watah; New Orleans; 1904 St. Louis World's Fair; The Anthropology Exhibit; Back Home; Measuring; The Real Measure of Man; On the Way to New York; Strings II; South Winds: The Pennsylvania Train; The Jim Crow Car.
- Virginia: The House on Durmid HillThe Children's Virginia; Ota's Virginia; Loss; Return to the Orphanage; Return to the Southland; Like a Wind; Ota in Woods with Boys; Forest Man; Into the Woods Alone; Fire Dance; In the Dark of Night; Lamentations; Evening Song.