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Hardback. New. A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont--in short, the range of life events large and small,…
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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga Tapa dura - 2015
de Jane C. Beck
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- Título Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga
- Autor Jane C. Beck
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 312
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Illinois Press
- Fecha de publicación 2015-06
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780252039232 / 0252039238
- Peso 1.56 libras (0.71 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.58 x 6.09 x 0.68 pulgadas (24.33 x 15.47 x 1.73 cm)
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- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social conditions - 19th, African Americans - Social conditions - 20th
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2015939180
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Univ of Illinois Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. 312 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches.
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