Black folk could fly : selected writings / Randall Kenan.
"A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Ra...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 270 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- A Change Is Gonna Come: A Letter To My Godson
- Part I: Comfort Me. Scuppernongs and Beef Fat: Some Things about the Women Who Raised Me
- The Rooster, the Rattlesnake, and the Hydrangea Bush
- Greens: A Mess of Memories about Taste
- Swine Dreams: or, Barbecue for the Brain
- Chinquapin: Elementary Particles
- Ode to Billie Joe
- Comfort Me with Barbecue
- Ghost Dog: or, How I Wrote My First Novel
- Part II: Where Am I Black? Come Out the Wilderness
- Where Am I Black?: or, Something about My Kinfolks
- Blackness on My Mind
- An Ahistorical Silliness
- Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical Hamilton
- The Many Lives of Eartha Kitt: or, Taking the Girl out of the south
- The Good ship Jesus: Baldwin, Bergman, and the Protestant Imagination
- There's a Hellhound on Your Trail: How to See Like Gordon Parks
- Part III: That Eternal Burning. Finding the Forgotten
- Chitlins and Chimichangas: A Southern Tale in Black and Latin: A Proposal for a Documentary
- Letter from North Carolina: Learning from Ghosts of the Civil War
- That Eternal Burning
- Love and Labor
- Letter to Self.