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The Tribal Knot: Ties That Bind and Break Us
McClanahan discusses the diary of her long-loved aunt Bessie. Bessie's diary of 1897 muscles along, day by calendar day, an inchworm making its blind progress with little care for what has gone before and no knowledge of what lies ahead, beyond a girl's vague landscape of hopes and dreams....
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Published in: | The Kenyon review 2009-01, Vol.31 (1), p.121-155 |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | McClanahan discusses the diary of her long-loved aunt Bessie. Bessie's diary of 1897 muscles along, day by calendar day, an inchworm making its blind progress with little care for what has gone before and no knowledge of what lies ahead, beyond a girl's vague landscape of hopes and dreams. Apart from her hair, straight and black and shiny--all the Mounts children had that same Indian-straight hair--she had little in the way of looks to recommend her. Informants insist that an ancestral "hair picture" figured strongly in the violence that erupted outside the Wisconsin farmhouse in 1933. |
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ISSN: | 0163-075X 2327-8307 |