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  title info:
    title: Daughters of Harriet
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Parker-Ohene, Cynthia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cou
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 66 pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, these poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks mislaid in potters' fields and catalogued with other misbegotten souls, now unsettled as the unknown Black denominator. Who loved them? Who turned them away? Who dismembered their souls? In death, they are the institutionalized marked Black bodies assigned to parcels, scourged beneath plastic sheets identified as a number among Harriets as black, marked bodies. These poems speak to how the warehousing of enslaved and somewhat free beings belies their humanity through past performances in reformatories, hospitals for the negro insane and workhouses. To whom did their Black lives belong? How are Black girls socialized within the family to be out in the world? What is the beingness of Black women? How have the "Harriets," the descended daughters of Harriet Tubman, confronted issues of caste and multiple oppressions? These poems give voice to the unspeakable, the unreachable, the multiple Black selves waiting to become.
  note: Cynthia Parker-Ohene.
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3616.A7528 D38 2022
  classification: 811/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mountain west poetry series
  identifier: 9781885635815
  identifier: 1885635818
  identifier: 9781885635822
  identifier: 2021050292
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211014
    record change date: 20220506165405.6
    record identifier: in00004566278