Author: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his kids are white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them—or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
Author: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his kids are white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them—or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his kids are white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them—or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.
The Life of Thomas Chatterton
Chatterton
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.
The Life of Thomas Chatterton
The Life of Thomas Chatterton
Author: John Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton
Author: Thomas Chatterton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Life of Thomas Chatterton
Author: George Gregory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Marvellous Boy
Author: Linda Kelly
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571287166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he became a symbol of some of its most powerful preoccupations - suicide, youth and neglected genius. During the two ensuing centuries, Chatterton has become one of the most famous of literary suicides. To the Romantics in the nineteenth century, the premature death of this precocious genius became a source of inspiration. His suicide inspired Vigny's melodramatic play Chatterton, and forty years later, Leoncavallo's opera spread to Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites, especially Rossetti, were fascinated by his death. In the twentieth century, the eccentric scholar and poet E. W. Meyerstein developed a lifelong passion for him. Linda Kelly explores the development, pervasiveness and astonishing persistence of the Chatterton legend, throwing new and revealing light on the writers and artists who admired him. 'A book that leaves out nothing important and yet keeps us reading like a novel.' John Wain
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571287166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he became a symbol of some of its most powerful preoccupations - suicide, youth and neglected genius. During the two ensuing centuries, Chatterton has become one of the most famous of literary suicides. To the Romantics in the nineteenth century, the premature death of this precocious genius became a source of inspiration. His suicide inspired Vigny's melodramatic play Chatterton, and forty years later, Leoncavallo's opera spread to Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites, especially Rossetti, were fascinated by his death. In the twentieth century, the eccentric scholar and poet E. W. Meyerstein developed a lifelong passion for him. Linda Kelly explores the development, pervasiveness and astonishing persistence of the Chatterton legend, throwing new and revealing light on the writers and artists who admired him. 'A book that leaves out nothing important and yet keeps us reading like a novel.' John Wain
The Rowley Poems
Author: Thomas Chatterton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Life of Thomas Chatterton, With Criticism on His Genius and Writings, and a Concise View of the Controversy Concerning Rowley's Poems
Author: G (George) 1754-1808 Gregory
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019759219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a biography of the poet Thomas Chatterton, one of the most enigmatic and controversial literary figures of the 18th century. The author examines Chatterton's life and works, including his famous Rowley poems, and offers a detailed critique of his genius. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of English literature and poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019759219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a biography of the poet Thomas Chatterton, one of the most enigmatic and controversial literary figures of the 18th century. The author examines Chatterton's life and works, including his famous Rowley poems, and offers a detailed critique of his genius. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of English literature and poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.