Axeman's Jazz - Hardcover

Daugherty, Tracy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087074481X ISBN 13: 9780870744815

Verlag: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S., 2003

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Book by Daugherty Tracy

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Reseña del editor:

A stunning tour de force, Tracy Daugherty s fourth novel explores the volatility of race, class, and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston, Texas, family, and traces the rise and decline of an inner city neighborhood from the point of view of a prodigal daughter. Twenty-something Telisha Washington returns after many years to the decaying Houston neighborhood where she was born, to renew old ties and come to terms with her family s enigmatic heritage. The product of a racially mixed union, she has spent her life straddling received definitions of race, class, gender, and culture. Her personal odyssey is centered inside a black neighborhood s convulsions, where violence, poverty, and the politics of gentrification take their toll. An unflinching meditation on family, race, sex, and love, as well as a dissection of public and private identity, "Axeman s Jazz" is a stark, but loving, portrait of contemporary urban America."

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This novel explores the volatility of race, class and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston family and traces the rise and decline of an inner city neighbourhood from the point of view of a prodigal daughter.

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• Verlag: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 087074481X
• ISBN 13: 9780870744815
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240