Power in the Blood - A Family Narrative

Informationen zum Autor Linda Tate is a faculty member in the University of Denver's Writing Program. She is the author of A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South and the editor of Conversations with Lee Smith. She taught at Shepherd University in West Virginia for fifteen years and now lives in Boulder! Colorado. Klappentext "Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative" traces Linda Tate's journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. "Power in the Blood" is a dramatic family history that reads like a novel, as Tate's compelling narrative reveals one mystery after another. Innovative and groundbreaking in its approach to research and storytelling, Tate shows that exploring a family story can enhance understanding of history, life, and culture and that honest examination of the past can lead to healing and liberation in the present. Zusammenfassung Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Tate
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9780821418727
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1872-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia; Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology