Where I Must Go
アンジェラ・ジャクソンの長編小説。公民権運動期の空気のなかで、進歩と排除の両方を抱えた環境を通り抜ける若い女性の成長を描く。
作品情報
教室と街と家族史が、ひとりの声のなかで重なり合う。
黒人の若い女性マグダレナ・グレースの視点から、大学、街、ミシシッピの家族史を往復する物語。個人の欲望と社会の秩序がずれ続ける場所を、感情の厚みとともに描き出す。
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文体の伸びやかさと、違い・所属・歴史の圧力を丁寧に描く姿勢が評価されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Triquarterly Books
- 発売日
- 2009-09-30
- ページ数
- 385ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.56 x 3.3 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780810151857
- ISBN-10
- 0810151855
- 価格
- 2799 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
Lyrical, penetrating, and highly charged, this novel displays a delicately tuned sense of difference and belonging. Poet Angela Jackson brings her superb sense of language and of human possibility to the story of young Magdalena Grace, whose narration takes readers through both privilege and privation at the time of the American civil rights movement. The novel moves from the privileged yet racially exclusive atmosphere of the fictional Eden University to the black neighborhoods of a Midwestern city and to ancestral Mississippi. Magdalena’s story includes a wide range of characters—black and white, male and female, favored with opportunity or denied it, the young in love and elders wise with hope. With and through each other, they struggle to understand the history they are living and making. With dazzling perceptiveness, Jackson’s narrator Magdalena tells of the complex interactions of people around her who embody the personal and the political at a crucial moment in their own lives and in the making of America.
ANGELA JACKSON is Poet Laureate of Illinois. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, she was raised on Chicago’s South Side, and educated at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Her Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners , winner of the 1993 Chicago Sun-Times Book of the Year Award in Poetry and the 1994 Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry, and her selected poems, And All These Roads Be Luminous , are both published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern.
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I had read a selection of this wonderful book in the Northwestern Alumni Magazine and until then, I was unaware of Angela Jackson as a writer or a poet. There were phrases in that excerpt that stuck. Throughout this book, tucked into paragraphs of story, there are micropoems; there are diamonds embedded in the strata of the prose. " My mama was thirty-five then and she was beginningness, creatrix, matrix who pulled babies out of the ethers of her laughter and kissed a wound to quiet." .... wow! There is poetry in this writing and a heartfelt story that I can begin to understand through the eyes of this narrator. The strength and craziness of family, the mixed blessings of opportunity are balanced well here. Well written, well done!
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