A Mind Spread out on the Ground
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 329 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
"The Mohawk phrase for depression, Wake' nikonhra'kwenhtará:'on, can be roughly translated to 'a mind spread out on the ground.' Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of persona, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes connections between the past and present, the personal and political"--Back cover.
Series: Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
Contents:
A mind spread out on the ground -- Half breed: a racial biography in five parts -- On seeing and being seen -- Weight -- The same space -- Dark matters -- Scratch -- 34 grams per dose -- Boundaries like bruises -- On forbidden rooms and intentional forgetting -- Crude collages of my mother -- Sontag, in snapshots: reflecting on "In Plato's cave" in 2018 -- Two truths and a lie -- Extraction mentalities.
Subjects:
Elliott, Alicia.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Colonization -- Social aspects -- Canada.
Racism -- Canada.
Large type books.
Canada -- Race relations.
Elliott, Alicia.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Colonization -- Social aspects -- Canada.
Racism -- Canada.
Large type books.
Canada -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781432885397
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LP BIOGRAPHY Elliott, Alicia | Eastover | Large Print Biography | In |