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
Main Author: McClanahan, Rebecca
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Appreciation
Aunts
Brothers
Children
Cousins
Diaries
Domestic relations
Family relations
Fathers
Genealogy
Hair
Homes
Intergenerational relations
Killing
Mothers
Native North Americans
Nieces
Nonfiction
Parents
Portrayals
Respondents
Sons
Violence
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Homes
Intergenerational relations
Killing
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