The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

Derricotte, Toi

ISBN 10: 0393045447 / ISBN 13: 9780393045444

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1997

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205 p. These journals were kept by African-American poet Toi Derricotte, who can "pass" for white, when she lived in an affluent white suburb of New York with her much darker-skinned husband. Derricotte became deeply depressed by this experience, and wrote about it in order to survive it. Nominated for the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ torn at bottom of front flap. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Codice articolo 60702

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Titolo: The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: Hardcover

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

Spanning twenty years, from the time the author, a light-skinned black woman, moved into an all-white neighborhood, a journal ponders the meaning of being black in a racially divided country, and the price of denying it.

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Book by Derricotte Toi