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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:49:13 -0500
I also remember the Coretta Scott King Awards event Henrietta Smith described so well in her message earlier today.
In 1986 the lights went out in what was then the new Marriott in Times Square, Manhatten, but Virginia kept on reading by flashlight. What she read and said was electric.
I think that might have been the first time I heard Virginia Hamilton use the illuminating phrase "literature of liberation" to describe her own body of work.
Or was that at another CSK Awards event, the one when she was honored for "Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave" ?? It doesn't really matter, but she used it frequently in reference to her own writing.
In the extremely powerful "Anthony Burns," Virginia Hamilton created a narrative structure merging two genres. Once again, she was inventive and progressive in her use of words and frameworks in which they could speak for her. Once again she was true to her understanding of literature as being potentially liberating, and at the same time, expressing liberation as an underlying theme.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 10 Sep 2002 01:49:13 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:49:13 -0500
I also remember the Coretta Scott King Awards event Henrietta Smith described so well in her message earlier today.
In 1986 the lights went out in what was then the new Marriott in Times Square, Manhatten, but Virginia kept on reading by flashlight. What she read and said was electric.
I think that might have been the first time I heard Virginia Hamilton use the illuminating phrase "literature of liberation" to describe her own body of work.
Or was that at another CSK Awards event, the one when she was honored for "Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave" ?? It doesn't really matter, but she used it frequently in reference to her own writing.
In the extremely powerful "Anthony Burns," Virginia Hamilton created a narrative structure merging two genres. Once again, she was inventive and progressive in her use of words and frameworks in which they could speak for her. Once again she was true to her understanding of literature as being potentially liberating, and at the same time, expressing liberation as an underlying theme.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 10 Sep 2002 01:49:13 PM CDT
