Janice N. Harrington

Yard Show (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Janice N Harrington starter her career as a librarian.
• Yard Show examines the public and private symbolism in the art of designing, decorating, or dressing the yard spaces around African American homes within the Southern United States.
• Yard Show examines the gardeners who create yard shows and how these yards are about shaping a sense of belonging to reveal that Black creativity is a vital tool of survival.
• Yard Show ponders the hidden questions: How do we make a place for our lives or shape a sense of belonging? How do we resist the chaos, violence, and division that surround us?
• Yard Show discusses the following places/regions by name and may provoke particular interest in the areas of Champaign, Chicago, Peoria, and Springfield, Illinois, Nebraska, and The Midwest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781960145321
• Artikelnr.: 70331106

Autorenporträt

With a heart divided between the Midwest and the South, Janice N. Harrington weaves memory and place into questions about how we build a sense of belonging. Harrington a Guggenheim fellow, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Cave Canem Fellow, Harrington has published three previous books of poetry: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, The Hands of Strangers, and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. Also an award-winning children's writer, Harrington teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.