I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
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I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
（A Merloyd Lawrence book）
Addison-Wesley Pub., c1994
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Includes index
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内容説明
}In Ive Known Rivers, sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot practices her unique human archaeology, peeling back the layers of six extraordinary lives. What she creates is a wholly original work, a penetrating portrait of the lives of middle-class African-Americans that has not been seen before.The six storytellers in Lightfoots work are poised in midlife, the time we all look back as a way to anticipate the future. In dialogue with Lightfoot, they reconstruct their lives with heroic candor, reflecting on the necessary losses, the price of privelege. Any reader, regardless of race or gender, will identify with these lives, with the wya thses storytellers live with contradiction, change rage into love, and search for ways to give forward.Together these stories assume the power of a great novel, and through the mixture of losses and gains, despair and hope, trauma and recovery, ambivalence and ambition, Lightfoot presents a very all-American tale: the universal story of people moving up and out of their communities of origin toward some uncharted future.
Lightfoots subjects represent a vast range of experience: Katie Cannon, a tenured professor of theology, writes her illiterate father for the first time. Charles Ogletree, a renowned criminal defense lawyer teaching at Harvard Law School, is haunted by memories of a close friend, in jail for life. The rape of her mother and the pain of her illgitimacy open the story of Toni Schiesler, research chemist and former nun. Tony Earls, a psychiatrist studying the roots of violence, enjoys the way both science and jazz improvisation enrich his research. A balance between public acclaim and intimate relationships is the enduring goal of Cheryle Wills, a glamorous and successful entrepreneur. In the final protrait, Orlando Bagwell, a documentary filmmaker, creates work that reveals the beautiful/ugly truths of history. }
目次
- Listening to the Currents
- Katie Cannon: The Fruit of My Labor
- Charles Ogletree: Blow, Jazzman, Blow
- Toni Schiesler: My Mothers Power Was in Her Voice
- Tony Earls: Grounding with My Brothers
- Cheryle Wills: Sixth Sense
- Orlando Bagwell: Look into My Eyes and See the Fire
- Where the Rivers Join
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