Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

by Randall Kenan

Book Overview

"Rich in identity," as he described himself, Randall Kenan wrote widely and profoundly about what it meant to be Black, gay, and Southern. He confessed himself "elusive"--yet revealed himself in astonishing prose--memories of his three mothers (especially Mama, his great-aunt); recollections of his boyhood fear of snakes and his rapture in books; his sensual evocations of tobacco picking and hogkilling, butterbeans and scuppernongs, of the eastern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393882160
• ISBN13: 9780393882162
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"