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"Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race child adopted by Jefferson Davis in the last year of the Civil War, interrogates the infrequently examined connections between racism and love."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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My reread of In the Language of My Captor, actually I reread this twice, I drew a lot more out of the Banjo poems and their commentary on both the White man's gaze and media portrayls of African Americans located in a specific historical period and as a persistent phenomena.