Bellocq's Ophelia

Bellocq's Ophelia PDF Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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A collection of poems offers glimpses into the life and thoughts of an African American prostitute in pre-World War I New Orleans.

Bellocq's Ophelia

Bellocq's Ophelia PDF Author: Natasha Trethewey
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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A collection of poems offers glimpses into the life and thoughts of an African American prostitute in pre-World War I New Orleans.

Domestic Work

Domestic Work PDF Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labour-filled day reveal the equally hard emotional work of memory and forgetting, and the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live with or without someone.

Monument

Monument PDF Author: Natasha D. Trethewey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 132850784X
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey's new and selected poems, drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, while also including new work written over the last decade.

Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition)

Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition) PDF Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547526261
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Included in this audio-enhanced edition are recordings of the U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reading Native Guard in its entirety, as well as an interview with the poet from the HMH podcast The Poetic Voice, in which she recounts what it was like to grow up in the South as the daughter of a white father and a black mother and describes other influences that inspired the work. Experience this Pulitzer Prize–winning collection in an engaging new way. Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting the fort was the second regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards -- one of the Union's first official black units. Trethewey's new book of poems pays homage to the soldiers who served and whose voices have echoed through her own life. The title poem imagines the life of a former slave stationed at the fort, who is charged with writing letters home for the illiterate or invalid POWs and his fellow soldiers. Just as he becomes the guard of Ship Island's memory, so Trethewey recalls her own childhood as the daughter of a black woman and a white man. Her parents' marriage was still illegal in 1966 Mississippi. The racial legacy of the Civil War echoes through elegiac poems that honor her own mother and the forgotten history of her native South. Native Guard is haunted by the intersection of national and personal experience.

Beyond Katrina

Beyond Katrina PDF Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034902X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.

Ordering the Facade

Ordering the Facade PDF Author: Katherine Henninger
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807831123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. "Ordering the Facade" traces the visual and literary cultures of sou

Thrall

Thrall PDF Author: Natasha D. Trethewey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547571607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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Thrall examines the deeply ingrained and often unexamined notions of racial difference across time and space. Through a consideration of historical documents and paintings, Natasha Trethewey--Pulitzer-prize winning author of Native Guard--highlight the contours and complexities of her relationship with her white father and the ongoing history of race in America.

Southscapes

Southscapes PDF Author: Thadious M. Davis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.<

Mississippi Poets

Mississippi Poets PDF Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496829069
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide showcases forty-seven poets associated with the state and assesses their work with the aim of appreciating it and its place in today’s culture. In Mississippi, the importance of poetry can no longer be doubted. It partakes, as Faulkner wrote, of the broad aim of all literature: “to uplift man’s heart.” In Mississippi Poets, author Catharine Savage Brosman introduces readers to the poets themselves, stressing their versatility and diversity. She describes their subject matter and forms, their books, and particularly representative or striking poems. Of broad interest and easy to consult, this book is both a source of information and a showcase. It highlights the organic connection between poetry by Mississippians and the indigenous music genres of the region, blues and jazz. No other state has produced such abundant and impressive poetry connected to these essential American forms. Brosman profiles and assesses poets from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Grounds for selection include connections between the poets and the state; the excellence and abundance of their work; its critical reception; and both local and national standing. Natives of Mississippi and others who have resided here draw equal consideration. As C. Liegh McInnis observed, “You do not have to be born in Mississippi to be a Mississippi writer. . . . If what happens in Mississippi has an immediate and definite effect on your work, you are a Mississippi writer.”

Bellocq

Bellocq PDF Author: E. J. Bellocq
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN: 9780679449751
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An expanded and revised edition of the famous book of portraits of prostitutes in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, the inspiration for the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby. This new edition includes 52 tritone photos printed in a large format. The text from the original edition--by John Szarjowski, former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art--is reprinted here, along with a new Introduction by Susan Sontag.