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Nola face : a Latina's life in the big easy / Brooke Champagne.
Van Pelt Library F379.N553 C423 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Champagne, Brooke, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Crux (Athens, Ga.)
- Crux : the Georgia series in literary nonfiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Champagne, Brooke, 1980-.
- Champagne, Brooke.
- Hispanic American women--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- Hispanic American women.
- Multiracial women--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- Multiracial women.
- Ecuadorian Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- Ecuadorian Americans.
- New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Biography.
- Manners and customs.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 174 pages ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Latina's life in the big easy
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Nola Face is a collection of twenty-two essays that tell the story of the author's life and her time growing up in New Orleans. It describes her family as well as cultural and political contexts. The essays are reflective of Champagne's experience as a mixed race person, and pose important questions about racial identity, marriage, and family. The essays offer readers a diverse array of styles and emotions and are an emotional and transportive reflection on the past and our relationship with it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cielito Lindo
- Three Sacraments
- Pipón
- What I Know about the Chicken Lady
- McCleaning with the Dustbuster
- Lying in Translation
- Push
- Addendum to "McCleaning with the Dustbuster"
- Kingdom of Babes
- The Stump of "The Giving Tree"
- Don't You Forget about Me
- Exercises
- Nice Lady
- Bugginess
- Not the Loneliest Cover You Could Ever Do
- An Essay Entitled "Mrs."
- How Not to Hate Your Writing
- Bobbitt
- The Case for "Cunt"
- Nola Face.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780820366531
- 0820366536
- OCLC:
- 1396193496
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