The Beak in the Heart - Entzminger, Betina
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Vivid, dramatic portraits of the author's "misfit" female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a "proper Southern woman." The Beak in the Heart is a memoir of growing up "Southern." Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of the Southern women who preceded her-misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entzminger links several generations of women from pre-Civil War years to the present, including Victoria, a former slave and…mehr

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Vivid, dramatic portraits of the author's "misfit" female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a "proper Southern woman." The Beak in the Heart is a memoir of growing up "Southern." Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of the Southern women who preceded her-misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entzminger links several generations of women from pre-Civil War years to the present, including Victoria, a former slave and concubine to her third great uncle, Rosalee, a great aunt committed to the state hospital for forty years, and Carrie, an aunt who unwittingly married a gay man at a time when divorce was not legal in South Carolina. She also shares candid details of her rebellious youth and her own struggles with marriage and parenthood. In exploring the lives of her spirited female relatives, Entzminger-their educated, rebellious, and misfit twenty-first-century descendant-restores their voices and finds inspiration in their courage and integrity. The Beak in the Heart speaks to all women, regardless of region of birth, who have felt that society has curbed their freedoms or silenced their voices.
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Autorenporträt
Betina Entzminger is a Southern-born writer and English professor, currently living and working in Pennsylvania. A quadruple divorcee and mother of two teenagers, Entzminger holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her academic publications include two books: The Belle Gone Bad: White Southern Women Writers and the Dark Seductress (LSU Press, 2001) and Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics (Routledge, 2012) and many essays on American literature.She loves traveling, gardening, southern history, genealogy, animals, and antiques. She is also a feminist who loves men.