Cold Running Creek - Softcover

Lockhart, Zelda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978910214 ISBN 13: 9780978910211

Verlag: LaVenson Press Studios, 2018

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Book by Zelda Lockhart

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"With her pen, Zelda Lockhart has brought forth characters hidden in the

pages of history, and with her imagination she has unleashed a story of new

dimensions, bringing out new characters in an old story, as old as the cold

creek running. Ms. Lockhart has carved her place on the list of gifted writers."

--Angela Walton-Raji, author of Black Indian Genealogy Research

"Poignant, haunting, and invested with a riveting lyrical style . . . Cold Running

Creek brings the twin horrors of removal and slavery in close orbit with one

another. The result is devastating. As Lockhart freely imagines the pathos and

potentialities of Native and African American crossings, she tells a tale that

will set a generation of readers in search of more stories--both fictional and

real--of southern Black/Indian experience."

--Sharon P. Holland & Tiya Miles, co-editors of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African

Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006).

Reseña del editor:

During one of the most tumultuous times for the North American continent (pre and post Civil War) three generations of women both Native American and African American, struggle to be free. Raven, the main character of the first two chapters of the novel, is the daughter of Choctaw Native Americans who have escaped the relocation from Mississippi to Oklahoma Territory in hopes of negotiating their rights in the political maze of their changing landscape. In the event of faltered plans, her mother and father, ishki and inki, have charged Raven with the responsibility of her two younger siblings. The three children are the sole survivors of the resulting tragedy.Though eventually Raven marries a half French, half Choctaw man of prominence, and becomes the proud Misses of LeFlore plantation, she bares the initial, seemingly indelible wounds of the novel, and extends those to her daughter, Lilly, a half black half Choctaw infant who Raven raises as the full-blood heir to LeFlore.As the upshot of a second political miscalculation of American conquest, Lilly is captured and sold into the last three years of slavery. Though her actual bondage is short, her escape from her own enslavement spans to mid-life. She is always waiting for something to change. One day she abandons her two daughters and commits a dreadful act against her husband. Though horrifying, her lashing out is the very catalyst for her freedom. In an ending that peaks to a crescendo of redemption, Lilly’s salvation brings with it freedom for two generations of male and female ancestors of both Choctaw and African heritage. Cold Running Creek is enlightening in its untold historical truths, and relevant to all time with its soul-stirring revelations. With a chorus of swamps, voodoo, floods, creeks and rivers, Cold Running Creek is rich, passionate, and

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• Verlag: LaVenson Press Studios
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0978910214
• ISBN 13: 9780978910211
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304