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Availability:In StockContributor:Toi DerricotteSeries:Pitt PoetryPublish date:12/19/89Pages:88
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822954224ISBN-10:822954222UPC:9780822954224Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.48 x 5.55 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCQBHBTT25
What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822954224ISBN-10:822954222UPC:9780822954224Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.48 x 5.55 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCQBHBTT25
Toi Derricotte is an award-winning poet whose work tackles difficult and universal subject matter such as violence, racism, motherhood, and self-identity through an autobiographical lens. She is the author of The Undertaker's Daughter and four previous poetry collections, including Tender, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors. Derricotte is cofounder of Cave Canem, professor emerita at the University of Pittsburgh, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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