{"id":23366,"date":"2012-09-03T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23366"},"modified":"2017-03-19T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T14:35:42","slug":"thrall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23366","title":{"rendered":"Thrall, Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/hmh\/site\/hmhbooks\/bookdetails?isbn=9780547571607\" target=\"_blank\">Thrall, Poems<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/a><br \/>\n2012-08-28<br \/>\n96 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13\/ EAN:9780547571607; ISBN-10:0547571607<br \/>\nE-Book ISBN-13\/ EAN:9780547840420; ISBN-10:054784042X<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewriting.emory.edu\/faculty\/trethewey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey<\/a><\/strong>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing<br \/>\n<em>Emory University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/hmh\/site\/hmhbooks\/bookdetails?isbn=9780547571607\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/assets\/product\/9780547571607_hres.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, <em>Thrall<\/em> explores the historical, cultural, and social forces\u2014across time and space\u2014that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father. In a vivid series of poems about interracial marriage depicted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casta\" target=\"_blank\">Casta Paintings<\/a> of Colonial Mexico, Trethewey investigates the philosophical assumptions that underpin <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Enlightenment\" target=\"_blank\">Enlightenment<\/a> notions of taxonomy and classification, exposing the way they encode ideas of race within our collective imagination. While tropes about captivity, bondage, inheritance, and enthrallment permeate the collection, Trethewey, by reflecting on a series of small estrangements from her poet father, comes to an understanding of how, as father and daughter, they are part of the ongoing history of race in America.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thrall<\/em> not only confirms that Natasha Trethewey is one of our most gifted and necessary poets but that she is also one of our most brilliant and fearless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, &#8220;Thrall&#8221; explores the historical, cultural, and social forces\u2014across time and space\u2014that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,8,103,1617,20],"tags":[1135,1133],"class_list":["post-23366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-houghton-mifflin-harcourt","tag-natasha-trethewey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52623,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23366\/revisions\/52623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}