Island in the City A Memoir / Micah McCrary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCrary, Micah, author.

Series:

American lives.

American lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prague (Czech Republic)--Biography.

Prague (Czech Republic).

Chicago (Ill.)--Biography.

Chicago (Ill.).

Normal (Ill.)--Biography.

Normal (Ill.).

McCrary, Micah.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 153 pages).)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018

Summary:

What forges the unique human personality? In Island in the City Micah McCrary, taking his genetic inheritance as immutable, considers the role geography has played in shaping who he is. Place often leaves indelible marks: the badges of self-discovery; the scars from adversity and hardship; the gilded stamps from personal triumphs; the tattoos of memory; and the new appendages--friendships, experiences, and baggage--we carry with us. Each place, with its own personality, has the power to form or revise our personhood in surprising and fascinating ways. McCrary considers three places he has called home (Normal, Illinois; Chicago; and Prague) and reflects on how these surroundings have shaped him. His sharp-eyed, charming memoir-in-essays contemplates how aspects of his identity, such as being black, male, middle-class, queer, and American, have developed and been influenced by where he hangs his hat.

Contents:

Normal. Oreo

Postures of privilege

To rebel against men

Ever the moth

Chicago. Metropolis

Green and gray

Geraldyne's room

Two cities

Playground city

Prague. Snow globe Bohemia

Island in the city

A good fake Czech

Cabaret

An idea of Prague

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496210661

1496210662

9781496210685

1496210689

OCLC:

1043948601