A moving and imaginative memoir documenting the Civil Rights Era, contemporary southern culture, and Lemon's private and public art practice Num Pages: 240 pages, 93 illus. (41 colour). Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1089. . 2013. hardcover. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Come home Charley Patton
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0819573191
ISBN 13: 9780819573193
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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A moving and imaginative memoir documenting the Civil Rights Era, contemporary southern culture, and Lemon's private and public art practice

Come home Charley Patton is a moving and an imaginative memoir documenting the Civil Rights Era and contemporary southern culture. Intricately layered and deeply arresting, Ralph Lemon's research on the African American experience intertwines personal anecdotes and family remembrances with diaristic accounts of the making of a dance, as Lemon journeys the mythic roads of migration―visiting the sites of lynchings, following the paths of Civil Rights marches, and meeting the descendants of early blues musicians. Come home Charley Patton is a rich, transcendent text, and a historically-charged meditation on memory in America. It is a formidable finale for the Geography trilogy (including Geography and Tree), three books connected thematically by racial identity and the related dance projects choreographed by Lemon. Generously illustrated with family photos, original art, and photos of the performance, the book will take its place in the canon of great African American writing.

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RALPH LEMON is a distinguished dancer, choreographer, writer, and visual artist. He lives in New York City.

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