When you learn the alphabet /
Kendra Allen's first collection of essays When You Learn the Alphabet is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between father and daughter as well a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Kendra Allen's first collection of essays When You Learn the Alphabet is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between father and daughter as well as mother and daughter. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously informed and encouraged her ideas on social issues such as colorism, feminism, war-induced PTSD, homophobia, marriage and 'the n-word,' among other things. |
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| Physical Description: | 149 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781609386290 1609386299 |