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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: coastline is an immeasurable thing
    sub title: a memoir across three continents
  name:
    name part: Daniel, Mary-Alice
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 259 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel's upbringing. Against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence, she reckons with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and a multiplicity of possible identities. Daniel lays bare the lives and legends of her parents and past generations, unearthing the tribal mythologies that shaped her kin and her own way of being in the world. The impossible question of which tribe to claim as her own is one she has long struggled with: the Nigerian government recognizes her as Longuda, her father's tribe; according to matrilineal tradition, Daniel belongs to her mother's tribe, the nomadic Fulani; and the language she grew up speaking is that of the Hausa tribe. But her strongest emotional connection is to her adopted home: California, the final place she reveals to readers through its spellbinding history. Daniel's approach is deeply personal: in order to reclaim her legacies, she revisits her unsettled childhood and navigates the traditions of her ancestors. Her layered narratives invoke the contrasting spiritualities of her tribes: Islam, Christianity, and magic. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is a powerful cultural distillation of mythos and ethos, mapping the far-flung corners of the Black diaspora that Daniel inherits and inhabits. Through lyrical observation and deep introspection, she probes the bonds and boundaries of Blackness, from bygone colonial empires to her present home in America"--
  table of contents: Fortune far away -- Irregular universe -- Land like a firearm -- The people who steal thatch -- From her I inherit -- Spirits of wilderness -- The dark continent -- Daughter of the wind -- Allegiance unclear -- Tribe and tongue differ -- Allow spirits to enter and leave -- The name one gives oneself.
  target audience: adult
  note: Mary-Alice Daniel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-nr---
    geographic code: e-uk-en
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Daniel, Mary-Alice
  subject:
    topic: African American women poets
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American poets
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women poets
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Poets
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Nigerian Americans
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Nigeria
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: England
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: African American poets
  subject:
    topic: African American women poets
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Nigerian Americans
  subject:
    topic: Poets
  subject:
    topic: Women poets
  subject:
    geographic: England
  subject:
    geographic: Nigeria
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: E184.N55 D36 2022
  classification: 973/.0496690730092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Coastline is an immeasurable thing
    name:
      name part: Daniel, Mary-Alice, 1986-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York City : Ecco, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2022020635
  identifier: 9780062960047
  identifier: 0062960040
  identifier: 9780062960054
  identifier: 0062960059
  identifier: 9780062960061
  identifier: 2022020634
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: IEN/DLC
    record creation date: 220427
    record change date: 20250318214927.6
    record identifier: in00004651531
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng