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Author Jensen, Toni, author.

Title Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land / Toni Jensen.

Publication Info. New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
©2020

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY JENSEN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 JENSEN, TON    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B JENSEN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B JENSEN TONI J    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B JENSEN TONI J    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-JENSEN, T.    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - Adult Department  B-JENSEN, T.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 294 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Women in the Fracklands -- Songs Without Words -- The Invented Histories of Domestic Birds -- Give and Go -- Carry -- Route -- Dog Days -- In the Neighborhood -- The Worry Line -- Fracture and Song -- How to Make a Trafficked Girl -- City Beautiful -- Chicken -- Pass -- Contagion -- Ghost Logic.
Summary "A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known she is not alone. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women, on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen recalls the discrimination she faced in college as a Native American student from her roommate to her faculty adviser. "The Worry Line" explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. "At the Workshop" focuses on her graduate school years, during which a classmate repeatedly wrote stories in which he killed thinly veiled versions of her. In "Women in the Fracklands," Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access pipeline protests, as well as the peril faced by women, in regions overcome by the fracking boom. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history--as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates as a Native American woman. With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one's country is not the same as surviving one's country."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Jensen, Toni.
Métis women -- North Dakota -- Biography.
Indian women activists -- North Dakota -- Biography.
Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- North Dakota.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
Indian women activists. (OCoLC)fst01741091
Indian women -- Crimes against. (OCoLC)fst00969251
Métis women. (OCoLC)fst01032005
North Dakota. (OCoLC)fst01205582
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Local Subject Indigenous women activists -- North Dakota -- Biography.
Added Title Memoir of survival on stolen land
Other Form: Online version: Jensen, Toni. Carry. New York : Ballantine Group, [2020] 9781984821195 (DLC) 2020015794
ISBN 9781984821188 (hardcover)
1984821180 (hardcover)
9781984821201 (paperback)
1984821202 (paperback)
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