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My father's daughter : a memoir
A portrait of Frank Sinatra by daughter Tina focuses on his marriage to Barbara Marx Sinatra and his later years.
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This Is Her Century
This book is a study of the works of Margaret Walker (1915-1998) in chronological order, in the social and intellectual context of twentieth century America. Walker is a writer who is known by name for her works; however, very little criticism is written on her literary contributions. This is the first monograph on Walkers work by a single author and is an attempt to establish the importance of Walkers representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity. This book sh.
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Frank Sinatra
\"American Icons: Frank Sinatra celebrates the legendary crooner who defined American music, class, and style for a generations. From his early years during the swing era to his solo career and time with the famous Rat Pack, this book explores the colorful, exciting life of Ol' Blue Eyes.\"--Publisher's description.
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Jubilee As A Transformative Text: How Margaret Walker’s Landmark Novel Paved the Way for Other Black Women Novelists to Write Biographical Fiction
There is no question that Margaret Walker created an unforgettable character in her seminal novel, Jubilee: Vyry, an enslaved woman. In the novel, Vyry’s instinct and will to survive her horrific circumstances as an orphan—then as a young mother who desired freedom for herself and her children, until she finally became a liberated person, who later came to start a familial line of genius by writing her story—gave hope and inspiration to many. I’m one of them. I was transported by the world Walker created. Even though I had been exposed to previous portrayals of enslavement in the media, namely through Roots and its sequel Roots the Next Generation, I knew what Walker had done in Jubilee was something special and singular. She had—as I came to assess later on in graduate school when scholar Jacqueline Carmichael had become something of a mentor to me—put the primary focus on what Vyry had done to assert her humanity in her circumstances, allowing the horror of “what they did to us” to be an occasional incident and not the focus of her story, which in 21st-century parlance is what we call trauma porn. Not once did I see Vyry as a victim or as passive. She was, to me, a living, breathing, vivid example of Black womanhood. Yes, she was enslaved but, by way of her own special self, she reminded me that I came from greatness.
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Margaret Walker and the WPA: Black Feminism, Progressive Government, and the Program Era
Mark McGurl's The Program Era prioritizes the university-based creative writing program for the production of modern literature, but in the 1930s, the Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a progressive and antiracist rival. As a federal employee, Margaret Walker synthesized her colleagues' feedback into her classic poem \"For My People,\" which extols Roosevelt's New Deal coalition. Although scholars focus on Walker's years at the University of Iowa, the WPA's folklore studies, directed by Sterling Brown and Benjamin Botkin, inspired the folklore poems of For My People as well as Walker's landmark novel Jubilee . Walker memorialized the Writers' Project in her underappreciated biography Richard Wright, Daemonic Genius , which not only makes a feminist critique of Native Son but also reminds us of the efficacy of government support for literary creativity. In the 1980s, Walker campaigned for Jesse Jackson, writing essays that drew on her skills as a WPA researcher to merge the ethos of the New Deal with that of the Rainbow Coalition. A testament to activist government coupled with national solidarity, her work models a class-conscious multiculturalism relevant for our own time.
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For Margaret Walker (1915–1998)
Dearest Margaret,I could think of no other way to do this than to write a letter to you. By “this” I mean salvaging my memories about both the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival in 1973 and its anniversary fifty years later. I am to write about reflections upon attending both. My thoughts centered on you.
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