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Daisy Turner's Kin : An African American Family Saga / Jane C. Beck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beck, Jane C., 1941- author.
- Series:
- Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
- Folklore studies in a multicultural world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
- African American families--Biography.
- African American families.
- Turner family.
- Turner, Daisy, 1883-1988--Family.
- Turner, Daisy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, Illinois ; Chicago, Illinois ; Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont--in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards--and uses--of memory.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The Turner narrative and memory
- Meeting Daisy
- African roots
- Jack Gouldin and Robert Berkeley
- Plantation life
- Civil War
- Postwar
- Vermont
- Journey's end
- Daisy's last years
- Afterword
- Research and acknowledgments
- Appendix. Turner family genealogical chart.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-277) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-252-08079-3
- OCLC:
- 910662349
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