The body family / Hope Wabuke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wabuke, Hope, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Poetry.

Families.

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2022]

Summary:

Hope Wabuke weaves together a coming-of-age narrative of a Black girl, the child of immigrants fleeing from genocidal terror to America.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

I.

If Not David

: Goliath

Tongue

Mouth

Exodus: Father's American Superheroes

Breath

Job (Survivor's Guilt)

And after the War They Still Dream of Things Like Angels That Shield Men from the Firing

Naomi after the War

Lamentations

Refugee Mind

The Chronicles (of a Violence Foretold)

II.

Figure 1: Portrait of Ruth Understanding What Became of Eve in the Garden as Her Own Body as War Materials: Wind &amp

Sand

And after the War the Women and Girls Are Still Trying to Forget

Numbers

Genesis (First Daughter's Birth)

Mother after the War Is Still Talking to the Dead

Proverbs of My Father's Village

Judges

Deuteronomy

Leviticus

Stomach

Ears

First &amp

Second Crowns: A Reverse Pantoum for Two Voices

Blood

Acts of Erasure in the Country of Nameless Women

Rib

Legs

Figure 2: Mary, Called Girl Materials: Blood &amp

Darkness

Figure 3: La Pièta Materials: Breath &amp

Air

Figure 4: Pièta II, Black Body as Crucifix Patterned with a Field of Skittles Crossed with Seven-UP against a Blood Red Sky Materials: White Concrete &amp

Lead

III.

Figure 5: Pièta III, after I Watch the Video of White Woman Am Cooper Channeling Carolyn Bryant Donhom in Central Park in New York City I Have a Nightmare and Wake in Cold Sweat because All I Can See Is Your Broken Six-Year-Old Face Smashed in Pulped and Bloody Like Emmett Till's Materials: History &amp

Fear

Mouth II

Figure 6: The Nameless Women as a Category in ABC's Jeopardy!: A Partial List Materials: Echo &amp

Sound

Figure 7: The Nameless Women as a Category in ABC's Jeopardy! Appendix Answer Key Materials: Erasure &amp

Loss

Figure 8: Ruth as the Nameless Black Girls and Women Who Flew because They Could Not Swim across the Water of the Middle Passage in the Late 18th Century When Thrown Overboard, Alive and Chained, from British Slave Ships for Collection of the Insurance Money by British Captains Who Had Done the Same to Their Animal Cargoes without Any Legal Repercussions and Thought They Could Do the Same to Human Beings because Black and Therefore Not Human or Even Animal but Only Things/Cargo as Remembered by

Breath II

Breath III

Breath IV

Skin: The Only Black Girl in School

Figure 9: Ruth as a Black Girl Walking among the Nameless Black Women Disappeared Between 1619 and the Present by Great Britain and the Americas Materials: Echo &amp

Figure 10: Self-Portrait as Ruth Materials: Unknown

IV.

Exodus II: Survivor's Walk

Figure 11: Self-Portrait as Fire and Oshun Materials: Water

PiÈta IV: Revelations

Figure 12: Portrait of Black Jesus as the Naming of the Ghosts Materials: Water &amp

Memory

Notes

Acknowledgments

Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781642597240

1642597244

OCLC:

1303085637