Cotton: A Literary Freedom Ride Through Identity Politics and Racial Transformation in 1950s Mississippi [Paperback] Wilson, Christopher

Wilson, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0156030454 / ISBN 13: 9780156030458

Published by Harper Perennial, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cotton: A Literary Freedom Ride Through Identity Politics and Racial Transformation in 1950s Mississippi [Paperback] Wilson, Christopher
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156030454
• ISBN 13: 9780156030458
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segre­gated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee’s first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in Nevada. There, a drunken accident will separate Lee from another part of his identity and change his fate yet again. Before he returns to Mississippi, he will experience up close and personal the women’s liberation movement and the dawn of the Lesbian Nation. 
 
Lee Cotton’s voice—equal parts Delta Blues and Motown—takes us on an exhilarating freedom ride through America’s preoccupation with identity politics. His funny, forgiving charm ultimately embodies a serious message: The freaks and oddities of this world may well be divine.

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER WILSON earned his Ph.D. in humor and works as a consulting semiotician. His first novel, Mischief, was short-listed for the Whitbread Award. He lives in London.