Trespasses - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Lacy M. Johnson worked as a cashier at WalMart, sold steaks door-to-door, and puppeteered with a traveling 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. Excerpts can be found at . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lacy M Johnson, Lacy M. Johnson
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9781609380786
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-078-6
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Sightline Books: The Iowa Seri; Sightline Books: The Iowa Seri; Sightline Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography / Autobiography