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Maud Martha

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內容簡介 Maud Martha Brown誕生於1940年代的芝加哥，就像那個年代的少女一樣，她憧憬者紐約生活，她喜歡蒲公英，她學習喝咖啡，嚮往與某人陷入熱戀、成為他人的妻子，學會讓家裡的廚房看起來溫馨又美好，但她膚色較淺的丈夫保羅則有其他想法：上酒店、去俱樂部和其他女人─膚色沒那麼深的女人。作者Gwendolyn Brooks是美國首位獲得普立茲獎的非裔美國詩人，Maud Martha則是她少數的小說作品，描述非裔女性成長的經歷與心理轉折，至今讀來依舊能感同身受，深刻描繪女性在成長裡面對的傷痛、幽默、哀愁與快樂。The stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize, introduced by Margo Jefferson.'Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo'Maud Martha finds beauty in the brutal formative moments that make us. It is one of my favorite depictions of how a woman comes to trust her eyes.' Raven Leilani'The quotidian rises to an exquisite portraiture of black womanhood in the hands of one of America's most foundational writers.' Claudia Rankine'Maud Martha reveals the poetry, power and splendor of an ordinary life.' Tayari JonesWhat, what, am I to do with all of this life?Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman; that visit to the cinema; the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there .Written in 1953 but never published in Britain, Maud Martha is a poetic collage of happenings that forms an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom, humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) was an American poet, educator, and civil rights activist based in Chicago. Her first collection, A Street in Bronzeville (1945), was greeted with critical acclaim and a Guggenheim fellowship. Annie Allen (1949) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, making her the first ever Black author to do so; and her only novel, Maud Martha, was published in 1953. In The Mecca (1968) was nominated for the National Book Award, the same year she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois. In 1976, she became the first Black woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and in 1985, the first to become Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry. She also published two volumes of autobiography and a book for children, and won a National Endowment for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. Throughout her life, she taught young writers and held numerous academic posts – she was awarded over seventy honorary degrees – and became a professor of English at Chicago State University in 1990 until her death in 2000.

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