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Annotations - 809

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An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St.

Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography.

Keene explores questions of identity from many angles—from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight).

Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.

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£199.80
Product Details
New Directions Books
0811225860 / 9780811225861
eBook (EPUB)
813.54
17/10/1995
United States
96 pages
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