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City Without Altar is a poetry collection and play in verse that explores what it means to live, love, heal and experience violence as a Black person in the world. The titular play in verse that sits at the center of the book seeks to amplify the voices and experiences of victims, survivors and living ancestors of the 1937 Haitian Massacre that occurred along the northwest Dominican/Haitian border during the Trujillo Era. Between the scenes of the play are "interludes" that explore a different kind of "cutting" and what it means to feel othered because of illness, disability and blackness. Ultimately, City Without Altar is a meditation on being/feeling "blacked out" by the archive, on the world stage and in one's daily life.

H | B | T | Gramm
229 mm | 178 mm | 8 mm | 0.213 kg

Erscheinungsjahr
2022

FSK
0

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Taschenbuch

Verlag
Noemi Press

ISBN-10
1934819158

ISBN-13
9781934819159

Autor
Jasminne Mendez

Sprache
Englisch

Seitenanzahl
0

Themen

Keywords
POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American, TB/Belletristik/Lyrik/Dramatik/Essays, POETRY / American / African American & Black

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Jasminne Mendez

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Jasminne Mendez

Jasminne Mendez is a Dominican-American poet, playwright, educator and award-winning author. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by The Acentos Review, The New England Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and others. She is an alumni of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and the author of two poetry/prose collections Island of Dreams(Floricanto Press, 2013) and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry(Arte Publico Press, 2018), and one children's picture book Josefina's Habichuelas (Arte Publico Press, 2021) She lives and works in Houston, TX with her partner in poetry and in life Lupe Mendez and their daughter Luz Maria.

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Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American
"Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either Black or white. She had no idea that a Black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at home and and American, English-speaking one around her. She desperately wanted to fit in, to be seen as American, and she realized early on that language mattered. Learning to read and write English well was the road to acceptance. Mendez shares typical childhood experiences such as having an imaginatry friend, boys and puberty, but she also exposes the anti-Black racism within her own family and the conflict created by her family's conservative traditions. She was not allowed to do things other girls could, like date boys, shave her legs or wear heels. 'I wanted us to find some common ground,' she writes about her parents, 'but it seemed like we were from two different worlds, and our islands kept drifting farther and farther apart.'"

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