Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
A Memoir, Nonfiction, Collections book. Although I had intended to consider the impossibility of returning to those...
Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by hurricane Katrina.Trethewey spent her childhood in Gulfport, where much of her mother’s extended family, including her younger brother, still lives. As she worked to understand the devastation that followed the hurricane, Trethewey found inspiration in Robert Penn Warren’s book Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South, in which he spoke with southerners about race in the wake of the Brown decision, capturing an event...
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- Pages: 144 pages
- ISBN: 9780820333816 / 820333816
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Although I had intended to consider the impossibility of returning to those places weve come fromnot because the places are gone or substantially different but because we areby August of 2005, the poem had become quite literal: so much of what Id known of my home was either gone or forever changed.Trethewey, Natasha (2010-09-15). Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication) (Kindle Locations 79-81). University of Georgia Press. Kindle Edition. Natasha Trethewey, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi...
I liked how she wrote about her brother against the back drop of Katrina and the rebuilding afterwards.A story we don't hear or read about. A documentation of brown folks lives. A good family memoire, a great look at how the disaster happened to individuals. Recommended. I'm always happy when I find a nonfiction book to share that has a strong voice and powerful narrative. Most of the time when you hear the word "Katrina," you immediately think about New Orleans, but instead Trethewey wants you to know how this affected the lives of those outside of New Orleans in places like Mississippi. She not only...
