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While the Locust Slept: A Memoir
Peter Razor
While the Locust Slept: A Memoir
While the Locust Slept: A Memoir
Peter Razor
Descripción
Through transcendent prose, an Ojibwe man chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the 1930s and the brutal farm indenture that followed. In stark, haunting prose, first-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel.
Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Razor was raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave labor, he struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life. Razor's stark and often chilling story, devoid of self-pity, recalls with haunting clarity the years he, like the locust, patiently waited to awaken and emerge.
Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Razor was raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave labor, he struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life. Razor's stark and often chilling story, devoid of self-pity, recalls with haunting clarity the years he, like the locust, patiently waited to awaken and emerge.
Detalles
| Formato | Tapa suave |
| Número de Páginas | 200 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2002-09-01 |
| Dimensiones | 7.8" x 5.2" x 0.7" pulgadas |
| Serie | Native Voices |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Temas | Siglo 20, Masculino, Nativo Americano |
| Premios | Minnesota Book Award 2002 (Winner) |
Garantía & Otros
| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.227 kg |
| SKU: | 9780873514392 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 30/12/23 |
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