When You Learn the Alphabet (Paperback)

Kendra Allen's first collection of essays-at its core-is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously informed her ideas on social issues such as colorism, feminism, war-induced PTSD, homophobia, marriage, and "the n-word," among other things. These dynamics strive for some semblance of accountability, and the essays within this collection are used as displays of deep unlearning and restoring-balancing trauma and humor, poetics and reality, forgiveness and resentment. When You Learn the Alphabet allots space for large moments of tenderness and empathy for all black bodies-but especially all black woman bodies-space for the underrepresented humanity and uncared for pain of black girls, and space to have the opportunity to be listened to in order to evolve past it.

General

Imprint:	University of Iowa Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Kendra Allen
Dimensions:	203 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-60938-629-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-60938-629-9
Barcode:	9781609386290

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