Monica Prince

Roadmap (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this radical twenty-first century choreopoem, Dorian, a youngAmerican Black man, is tasked by an ancestral spirit to thwart hisinevitable murder. He traces his family tree, from his grandmother tohis offspring, uncovering secrets of sex work, self-harm, and assaultalongside snapshots of #BlackBoyJoy. Guided by The Novelist, anomniscient muse, and her troupe of dancers, Dorian must interrogatehis legacy, forgive his past, and reckon with being Black in modernAmerica. He tries on different selves and possible futures in his increasingdesperation to experience the luxury of growing old and finding solacedespite institutional racism declaring him a threat. Through the poetry,dance, and song of Roadmap, will Dorian overcome the odds or becomeanother hashtag?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Santa Fe Writer's Project
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781951631307
• Artikelnr.: 72466768

Autorenporträt

Monica Prince teaches activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University. Her books include How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem, Instructions for Temporary Survival, and Letters from the Other Woman. Born to Guyanese parents and obsessed with maxi skirts with pockets, she writes, teaches, directs, and performs choreopoems all over the country, but is mostly found on Twitter @poetic_moni or on her website, monicaprince.com.