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Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.

Language: English

Pages: 64

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Release: April 03, 2007

ISBN: 0618872655

ISBN 13: 9780618872657

Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.

Language: English

Pages: 64

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Release: April 03, 2007

ISBN: 0618872655

ISBN 13: 9780618872657

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