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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 47 min.)) : digital. |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Dion Graham and Karen Chilton ; foreword read by Bryan Stevenson. |
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"A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. Chasing Me to My Grave presents Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgia's Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. As he pays tribute, exuberant and heartfelt, to Cuthbert's Black community and the people, including Patsy, who helped him to find the courage to revisit a traumatic past, Rembert brings to life the promise and the danger of Civil Rights protest, the brutalities of incarceration, his search for his mother's love, and the epic bond he found with Patsy. Vivid, confrontational, revelatory, and complex, Chasing Me to My Grave is a searing memoir in prose and paintings that celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society "A love story…[that] documents racial and economic violence under white supremacy as a living history. It also gives us an example of how to live without bitterness or seeking revenge." "A stunning portrait of hope in the face of evil, barbarity, and racism." "Rembert's self-portrait in word and image belongs in every library." "An ultimately uplifting journey from the ugliness of virulent racism to the beauty of art." "Narrator Dion Graham…has an aged, comfortable tone, as if Winfred is sitting around the table telling the whole family his life story. Though Karen Chilton, who portrays Patsy, the love of Winfred's life, delivers fewer passages, both voices-heartfelt and down-home-complement each other." "Rembert…reveal[s] truths about the human struggle that are transcendent, to evoke an understanding of human dignity that is broad and universal." "Winfred Rembert paints a world too little depicted and a reality we can't afford to forget." " Unvarnished literary and visual power." "A profoundly moving, devastatingly painful, and wonderfully transformative experience." "At turns harrowing and haunting…And through it all, joy, no matter how elusive, never disappears." "Rembert's account reminds us that it is in the remembering of the past that we keep it from becoming prologue." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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African American painters -- Georgia -- Biography.
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Outsider artists -- United States -- Biography.
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Georgia -- Biography.
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Kelly, Erin I., author.
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Stevenson, Bryan, writer of foreword, narrator.
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Graham, Dion, narrator.
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Chilton, Karen, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9798200682966 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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820068296X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14952839 |
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