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Hafizah Geter

The Black Period

On Personhood, Race, and Origin

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A stunningly original and lyrical memoir from an acclaimed poet that crosses continents, grapples with white supremacy, and explores how the origin stories we inherit can be remade. I say, 'the Black Period,' and mean 'home' in all its shapeshifting ways. Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-593-44865-6
  • EAN: 9780593448656
  • Produktnummer: 38127908
  • Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian American writer, poet, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Bomb Magazine, The Believer, The Paris Review, among many others. The poetry committee co-chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, she is a Bread Loaf Katherine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a Cave Canem poetry fellow, and a 92Y Women in Power Fellow. She holds an MFA in nonfiction from NYU, where she was an Axinn Fellow. Hafizah lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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