Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
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Publisher : Civitas Books
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9780786731374
ISBN-13 : 0786731370
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Book Synopsis Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by : June Jordan

Download or read book Soldier: A Poet's Childhood written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation Captured with astonishing beauty, through the eyes of a child, Soldier paints the battleground of June Jordan’s youth as the gifted daughter of Jamaican immigrants, struggling under the humiliations of racism, sexism, and poverty in 1940s New York. “There was a war on against colored people, against poor people,” Jordan writes, and she watches her mother turn inward in her suffering, her father lashing out, often violently, against his own daughter. She learns to harden herself, to be a “soldier,” while preserving a deep capacity for love and wonder. Poignantly exploring the nature of memory, imagination, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the vivid world in which her identity as a social and artistic revolutionary was forged.


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