Michael Awkward

Scenes of Instruction

A Memoir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This account of the education of Michael Awkward is tender, thoughtful, and illuminating. "Scenes of Instruction "is a great autobiographical achievement."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324027
• ISBN-10: 0822324024
• Artikelnr.: 21355916

Autorenporträt

Michael Awkward is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality and Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women’s Novels.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Author's Note
Awkward Silences
Introduction: "Don't Be Like Your Father"
Section I: The Mother's Mark
Section II: " Are You Man Enough?"
Section III: "Chocolate City
Section IV: "close in silence"
Section V: "The Mother's Breast"
Coda: Tippin' In
Works Cited or Consulted