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Indlæser... Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Societyaf John Edgar Wideman
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In the tradition of his best-selling Brothers and Keepers, which was about himself and his imprisoned brother, John Edgar Wideman ("our most powerful and accomplished artist of the urban black world"--Los Angeles Times Book Review) gives a searingly honest meditation on "fathers, color, roots, time, and language."
Certain to galvanize national attention, Fatheralong is a fiercely lyrical and revealing memoir that attempts all the while, "among other things, to break out, displace, replace the paradigm of race [America's enduring malaise]." As Wideman puts it: "Teach me who I might be, who you might be - without it."
From affluent Amherst to blue-collar Pittsburgh to rural South Carolina, here is the story of an American family. Wresting himself free from the shackles of racial ideology, Wideman bravely engages not only the living but also the "ghostlier demarcations" of his family's past, the better to understand who he is today and to heal familial wounds. Fatheralong is a triumphant book of reckoning, an inspiring celebration of homecoming. No library descriptions found. |
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The father and son dynamic in the African American community has often been traditionally more difficult for a myriad of reasons. John Egar Wideman's Fatheralong examines the role of race and the distance that it creates in fostering the African American father and son relationship.
Most of the book is the author's memoir about trying to forge some sort of connection with his distant father, Edgar as they travel to a South Carolina small town named Promised Land. There in Promised Land, father and son comes a little bit closer to understanding each other and learn more about their ancestors as well.
I found it to be an especially poignant read. ( )