{"id":25509,"date":"2012-09-21T03:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25509"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:30:58","slug":"intimate-an-american-family-photo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25509","title":{"rendered":"Intimate: An American Family Photo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\/books\/intimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intimate: An American Family Photo Album<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tupelo Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2012<br \/>\n300 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-932195-96-5<br \/>\nClothbound ISBN: 978-1-936797-08-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paisleyrekdal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paisley Rekdal<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\/books\/intimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/intimate360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Intimate<\/em> is a hybrid memoir and \u201cphoto album\u201d that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America. Typographically innovative, <em>Intimate<\/em> creates parallel streams, narrating the stories of Rekdal\u2019s Norwegian-American father and his mixed-race marriage, the photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_S._Curtis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward S. Curtis<\/a>, and Curtis\u2019s murdered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crow_Nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apsaroke<\/a> guide, Alexander Upshaw. The result is panoramic, a completely original literary encounter with intimacy, identity, family relations, and race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Intimate&#8221; is a hybrid memoir and \u201cphoto album\u201d that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,395,11,8,17,1617,20,25],"tags":[12070,12071,3075,12069],"class_list":["post-25509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-poetry-books","category-usa","category-women","tag-edward-s-curtis","tag-edward-sheriff-curtis","tag-paisley-rekdal","tag-tupelo-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509","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=25509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63541,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions\/63541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}