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Trespasses
Lacy M. Johnson
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Description for Trespasses
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 245.
A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can't escape, Lacy Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study. As she dismantles the complex history of a forgotten place while fighting to keep its people whole, Johnson reflects on a place that outsiders can cross into or pass through, but may never fully know. From formal and informal research ... Read more
A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can't escape, Lacy Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study. As she dismantles the complex history of a forgotten place while fighting to keep its people whole, Johnson reflects on a place that outsiders can cross into or pass through, but may never fully know. From formal and informal research ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609380786
SKU
V9781609380786
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About Lacy M. Johnson
Lacy M. Johnson worked as a cashier at WalMart, sold steaks door-to-door, and puppeteered with a travelling children’s museum before earning a PhD from University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She has taught writing for over a decade. Her creative and critical work has appeared in Sentence, TriQuarterly Online, Memoir (and), Gulf Coast and elsewhere.
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