Survivor's Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity

Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Artress Bethany White has written a beautiful book that shimmers with bravery on every page. In tackling race, she interrogates and informs, startles and prods, and implicates us all--forcing us to see ourselves through multi-faceted prisms of American identity. Using personal and familial narratives from her own 'tangled racial threads' as our intimate guide, White helps us understand this traumatized cultural moment by weaving together harsh truths with poetic language and fierce insight. We need this book right now. White shares an astute pedagogy here, one that acknowledges our collective mourning and provides a prescriptive for our collective healing. I want everyone to read this brilliant collection.--Bridgett M. Davis

Author: Artress Bethany White
Publisher: New Rivers Press
Published: 04/02/2020
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780898233926

About the Author
White, Artress Bethany: - Artress Bethany White PhD is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the 2018 Trio Award for her poetry collection, My Afmerica (Trio House Press, 2019). SURVIVOR'S GUILT: ESSAYS ON RACE AND AMERICAN IDENTITY is her first essay collection. She is also the author of the poetry collection, Fast Fat Girls In Pink Hot Pants (2012). Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Harvard Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Hopkins Review, Pleiades, Solstice, Poet Lore, Ecotone, and The Account. Scholarly essays appear in the anthologies Seeking Home: Marginalization and Representation in Appalachian Letters and Song (U of Tennessee P, 2017) and Literary Expressions of African Spirituality (Lexington Books, 2013). White has received the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction, The Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and writing residencies at The Writer's Hotel and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios.She teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for Rosemont College in Philadelphia.

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