The Black Wife
At once a radical black-white marriage history and a radical U.S. history, written in Alan Goldfein’s uniquely poetic, and witty prose, The Black Wife finds its focal point in Baltimore, “the most northern of the Southern cities, the most southern of the North”—the Nation itself becoming a kind of solar system through which “The Black Wife” travels—in success, in failure, in success. Torn by the ironies of race, the passionate hopes of race and the divisions, Carol “Poussaint” Polson marries a white man, has his son, who struggles within a lineage tug-of-war, reaching for salvation in a spirit life bizarre and strangely pure. Carol reports from Vietnam and from Iraq. She has grown up in Baltimore at the same time that Nancy Pelosi has grown up in Baltimore, one a daughter of the ghetto, one a daughter of the mayor: they meet in a violent way, symbolic of the Sixties, and their lives obliquely parallel—until they meet for a final tragic time, symbolic of the Nineties. And symbolic of Now.
| Autor: | Goldfein, Alan |
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| ISBN: | 9783000282614 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 376 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | American Editions Heidelberg |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.09.2009 |
| Untertitel: | An American Epic of American Racial Times |
| Schlagworte: | Amerika Bezug zu speziellen Gruppen und Kulturen oder sozialen und kulturellen Interessen Bürgerrechte Kulturgeschichte Schwarze USA |