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Danzy Senna

Autor(a) de Caucasia

6+ Works 1,490 Membros 34 Críticas 5 Favorited

About the Author

Danzy Senna hold the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Obras por Danzy Senna

Caucasia (1998) 953 exemplares
New People (2017) 251 exemplares
Symptomatic (2004) 120 exemplares
You Are Free: Stories (2011) 84 exemplares
Colored Television: A Novel (2024) 2 exemplares

Associated Works

Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural (1998) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
My Search for Warren Harding (1983) — Prefácio, algumas edições127 exemplares
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (2002) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (2006) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Black and Conservative (1966) — Introdução, algumas edições25 exemplares
Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today (2008) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares

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This book is weird. Maria the main character is confused about her feelings for her fiancée and has a bizarre obsession with a poet she knows casually. She does very weird things because of this poet.

Around that she muses about race (both she & her fiancée are bi-racial) and how they fit into their roles as black or white people depending on their choices.

I kept waiting for something more important to happen but we are just stuck in Maria’s mind for a few months and there’s no real resolution to anything.

I learned about this on a podcast by somebody who said it was the best book they’d read in ages. I didn’t get it.
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hmonkeyreads | 6 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
This novel is kind of an African American/Caucasian version of "The Parent Trap". When the parents split up, the Black parent takes the darker kid, and the Caucasian parent takes the lighter kid. This story is told through the perspective of the lighter kid, who knows about as much about the location of her father and sister for most of the novel as the girls in "The Parent Trap". Somehow, improbably in my opinion, Senna makes it all work.
 
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TheLoisLevel | 20 outras críticas | Jun 15, 2022 |
Interesting book about race in America, as well as interracial families. There are similarities between the story and the writer's own life, but she changed the mother dramatically for the fiction.
 
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LuanneCastle | 20 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2022 |
Biracial sisters who look white and black; family divides as the girls grow up in the early 70's. A powerful coming-of-age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America.
 
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BLTSbraille | 20 outras críticas | Sep 8, 2021 |

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Obras
6
Also by
8
Membros
1,490
Popularidade
#17,240
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
34
ISBN
54
Línguas
4
Marcado como favorito
5

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