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The Forgetting Tree : A Rememory /
Rae Paris began writing The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory in 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and defiance. The desire to do this work came from being a child of parents born and raised in New Orleans during segregation, who ultimately left for Californ...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit, MI :
Wayne State University Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | 1st edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prelude: Office of the Dead; I. Bones; How I Write: On Forgetting; Conversation in Bop #1: One Bright Morning; Funeral Mass: Man 1; Divided Heart: Part I; II. Flesh; The Forgetting Tree; Overheard: Plantation Museum, Monticello; Sally Hemings; Mardi Gras; Christmas Day; Ballad of Negro Judah; The Hanging Tree; Interlude: Not Yet; III. Skin; What I Could Have Said at My Father's Wake; Funeral Mass: Man 2; Uncle Kwanza: November 1; Funeral Mass: Man 2; On the Anniversaries of My Father's Death; Letter to L.: Unsent; IV. Sinew
- To the Killers of UsDispatch: New Orleans; Strangled: Letter to a Young Black Poet; An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter; Dispatch: Minneapolis; Dispatch: Dearborn Heights; On Being a Vine; Swing Low Suite; Dispatch: East Lansing; V. Souls; Divided Heart: Part II; The Tree of Return; Funeral Mass: Man 1; Conversation in Bop #2: To Miss New Orleans; To Get to the Cemetery; Postlude; Give Thanks; Notes