Danzy Senna
Autor von Schnee in Alabama
Über den Autor
Danzy Senna hold the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience (2006) — Mitwirkender — 75 Exemplare
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (2003) — Mitwirkender — 46 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1970
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Ausbildung
- Stanford University (BA)
University of California, Irvine (MFA, creative writing) - Berufe
- novelist
essayist - Beziehungen
- Howe, Fanny (mother)
Senna, Carl (father) - Organisationen
- College of the Holy Cross (Jenks Chair of Contemporary American/Letters)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Whiting Writers' Award (2002)
John Dos Passos Prize (2016) - Agent
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
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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.
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.
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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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.… (mehr)