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- Trespasses: A Memoir
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
summary
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. As she dismantles the complex history of a forgotten place while fighting to keep its people whole, Johnson reflects on a place that outsiders can cross into or pass through, but may never fully know. From formal and informal research methods, Johnson has produced an innovative collection of prose poems and essays that together create an exciting work of contemporary nonfiction.
Examining region through the lenses of memory (experience), history (memory made public), and theory (experience abstracted), Trespasses is a deeply intelligent work, at the center of which is the author, always feeling as if she doesn’t belong but not sure where she else she should be. In this profound work, Johnson drifts gracefully back and forth between timelines and voices in a way that illustrates how her present is connected to the many pasts she chronicles.
Table of Contents
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- rural route one
- still life with coffee
- inside joke
- rural route one
- on the other hand
- same joke
- rural route one
- p. 38
- random facts
- pp. 40-43
- different joke
- random facts
- pp. 51-53
- rural route one
- p. 58
- cast out
- moon blindness
- still life with paperback
- trespasses
- pp. 85-91
- jackson street
- liturgy
- prodigal daughter
- pp. 101-102
- random facts
- pp. 103-105
- ars poetica
- whitegate drive
- white / trash
- punchline
- what I had on my sixty-third dayin New York City
- still life with picture window
- university heights
- p. 127
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609380953
Related ISBN(s)
9781609380786
MARC Record
OCLC
782917927
Pages
156
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-08
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012