Five Points South: Poems from an Alabama Pilgrimage

by Nancy Owen Nelson

As a child first introduced to the horrors of race relations in the so-called United States, I held contempt for the South. As a race scholar, the Malcolmian position that the Canadian border demarcates the South informs my current analysis. Nelson deliberately challenges traditional narratives of whiteness to uncover the South, an Alabama that is much more than the violence she eloquently describes in the preface. A poetic autoethnography, this beautiful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639802487
• ISBN13: 9781639802487
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Kelsay Books
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"