Slaveroad

Name: Slaveroad
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
SKU: 04401775

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4606725Slaveroadhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/slaveroad-9781797185064/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4171538/image.jpg?v=638631493867630000466466MXNSimon & Schuster AudioInStock/Audiolibros/Master of language (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the slaveroad, offering a fresh perspective of slaverys impact and a confirmation of Widemans exalted status in American letters (New York magazine).John Edgar Widemans Slaveroad is a groundbreaking work of bruising candor and obsessive originality (The Wall Street Journal). For centuries, the buying and selling of human beings was legal, and millions of Africans were kidnapped then forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to serve as slaves. The enduring legacies of this slave road trafficdenied, unacknowledged, misunderstood, repressedcontinue to poison the experiences and journeys of all Americans.In a section of Slaveroad, called Sheppard, William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved Virginians, travels back to Africa where he works as a missionary, converting Africans to Christianity alongside his Southern white colleague. Wideman imagines drinking afternoon tea with Lucy Gant Sheppard, Williams wife, who was on her own slaveroad, as she experienced her husbands adultery with the African women he was trying to convert. In Penn Station, Widemans brother, after being confined forty-four years in prison, travels from Pittsburgh to New York. As Wideman awaits his brother, he asks, How will I distinguish my brother from the dead. Dead passengers on the slaveroad.A blend of memoir, fiction, history (The Millions), Slaveroad is a book that will inform, challenge, and surprise Wideman fans as well as newcomers to his writing....4401775Slaveroad466466https://www.gandhi.com.mx/slaveroad-9781797185064/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4171538/image.jpg?v=638631493867630000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20249781797185064_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9781797185064_Major literary figure and master of language (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the slaveroad, a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.John Edgar Widemans slaveroad is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this groundbreaking work that unsettles the boundaries of memoir, history, and fiction. The slaveroad begins with the Atlantic Ocean, across which enslaved Africans were carried, but the term comes to encompass the journeys and experiences of Black Americans since then and the many insidious ways that slavery separates, wounds, and persists.In a section of Slaveroad, called Sheppard, William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved Virginians, travels back to Africa where he works as a missionary, converting Africans to Christianity alongside his Southern white colleague. Wideman imagines drinking afternoon tea with Lucy Gant Sheppard, Williams wife, who was on her own slaveroad, as she experienced her husbands adultery with the African women he was trying to convert. In Penn Station, Widemans brother, after being confined forty-four years in prison, travels from Pittsburgh to New York. As Wideman awaits his brother, he asks, How will I distinguish my brother from the dead. Dead passengers on the slaveroad.An impassioned, searching work,?Slaveroad?is one mans reckoning with a uniquely American lineage and the ways that the past haunts the present: Its here. Now. Where we are. What we are. A story compounded of stories told, retold, untold, not told....(*_*)9781797185064_Major literary figure and master of language (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the slaveroad, a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.John Edgar Widemans slaveroad is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this groundbreaking work that unsettles the boundaries of memoir, history, and fiction. The slaveroad begins with the Atlantic Ocean, across which enslaved Africans were carried, but the term comes to encompass the journeys and experiences of Black Americans since then and the many insidious ways that slavery separates, wounds, and persists.In a section of Slaveroad, called Sheppard, William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved Virginians, travels back to Africa where he works as a missionary, converting Africans to Christianity alongside his Southern white colleague. Wideman imagines drinking afternoon tea with Lucy Gant Sheppard, Williams wife, who was on her own slaveroad, as she experienced her husbands adultery with the African women he was trying to convert. In Penn Station, Widemans brother, after being confined forty-four years in prison, travels from Pittsburgh to New York. As Wideman awaits his brother, he asks, How will I distinguish my brother from the dead. Dead passengers on the slaveroad.An impassioned, searching work, Slaveroad is one mans reckoning with a uniquely American lineage and the ways that the past haunts the present: Its here. Now. Where we are. What we are. A story compounded of stories told, retold, untold, not told....(*_*)9781797185064_Master of language (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the slaveroad, offering a fresh perspective of slaverys impact and a confirmation of Widemans exalted status in American letters (New York magazine).John Edgar Widemans Slaveroad is a groundbreaking work of bruising candor and obsessive originality (The Wall Street Journal). For centuries, the buying and selling of human beings was legal, and millions of Africans were kidnapped then forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to serve as slaves. The enduring legacies of this slave road trafficdenied, unacknowledged, misunderstood, repressedcontinue to poison the experiences and journeys of all Americans.In a section of Slaveroad, called Sheppard, William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved Virginians, travels back to Africa where he works as a missionary, converting Africans to Christianity alongside his Southern white colleague. Wideman imagines drinking afternoon tea with Lucy Gant Sheppard, Williams wife, who was on her own slaveroad, as she experienced her husbands adultery with the African women he was trying to convert. In Penn Station, Widemans brother, after being confined forty-four years in prison, travels from Pittsburgh to New York. As Wideman awaits his brother, he asks, How will I distinguish my brother from the dead. Dead passengers on the slaveroad.A blend of memoir, fiction, history (The Millions), Slaveroad is a book that will inform, challenge, and surprise Wideman fans as well as newcomers to his writing....9781797185064_Simon & Schuster Audioaudiolibro_9781797185064_9781797185064John EdgarInglésMéxico2024-10-08T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2024-10-08T00:00:00+00:00Simon & Schuster Audio