Guidebook to relative strangers : journeys into race, motherhood, and history / Camille T. Dungy.
| Author/creator | Dungy, Camille T., 1972- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] |
| Description | xv, 240 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The conscientious outsider -- Manifest -- Body of evidence -- Inherent risk, or what I know about investement: on balancing a career, a child, and creative writing -- Lap child -- A shade north of ordinary -- Writing home -- Bounds -- Tale from a black girl on fire, or why I hate to walk outside and see things burning -- A good hike -- Differentiation -- A brief history of near and actual losses. |
| Abstract | The poet-lecturer explores the intimate and vulnerable experiences of raising a child, counting on the goodwill of others, and living with illness. |
| Abstract | "As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille T. Dungy crisscrossed America with her daughter, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet's eye, she celebrates her daughter's acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time, history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers' and investors' dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods. With exceptional candor and grace, Dungy explores our inner and outer worlds--the intimate and vulnerable experiences of raising a child, living with illness, conversing with strangers, and counting on others' goodwill. Across the nation, she finds fear and trauma, and also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, Guidebook to Relative Strangers is an essential guide for a troubled land."--Dust jacket. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2017009437 |
| ISBN | 9780393253757 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0393253759 (hardcover) |
| Standard identifier# | 40027280591 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3604 .U538 Z46 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |