The Resource How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
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- Summary
- This new revised edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon's first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family's experiences, while simultaneously examining the world (Mississippi, the South, the United States) that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon's profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience
- Language
- eng
- Edition
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- Revised edition.
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 159 pages :
- Note
- First edition published in 2013
- Contents
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- Author's note #2
- Mississippi : an awakening, in days
- What I pledge allegiance to
- Da art of storytellin' (a prequel)
- How they do in Oxford
- Hey Mama : an essay in emails
- Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon
- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown
- You are the second person
- Hip hop stole my Southern black boy
- Our kind of ridiculous
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America
- The worst of white folk
- You will never know
- Isbn
- 9781982170820
- Label
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- Title
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Kiese Laymon
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This new revised edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon's first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family's experiences, while simultaneously examining the world (Mississippi, the South, the United States) that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon's profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience
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- 10934648
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Laymon, Kiese
- Dewey number
- 814.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- True
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- Laymon, Kiese
- African American novelists
- African American teachers
- Jackson (Miss.)
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- essays
- Label
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
- Note
- First edition published in 2013
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Author's note #2 -- Mississippi : an awakening, in days -- What I pledge allegiance to -- Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) -- How they do in Oxford -- Hey Mama : an essay in emails -- Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon -- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown -- You are the second person -- Hip hop stole my Southern black boy -- Our kind of ridiculous -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America -- The worst of white folk -- You will never know
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
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- Revised edition.
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 159 pages :
- Isbn
- 9781982170820
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1184237030
- Label
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
- Note
- First edition published in 2013
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Author's note #2 -- Mississippi : an awakening, in days -- What I pledge allegiance to -- Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) -- How they do in Oxford -- Hey Mama : an essay in emails -- Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon -- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown -- You are the second person -- Hip hop stole my Southern black boy -- Our kind of ridiculous -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America -- The worst of white folk -- You will never know
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
-
- Revised edition.
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 159 pages :
- Isbn
- 9781982170820
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1184237030
Library Locations
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