"...A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical
meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America.
In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about
Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of
her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia
Elliott offers indispensable insight and understanding to the ongoing
legacy of colonialism." -OCLC.
Author
Elliott, Alicia
Dimensions
22 cm
ISBN#
9780385692380
Contents
A mind spread out on the ground -Half breed: a racial
biography in five parts -On seeing and being seen -Weight —The same
space -Dark matters -Scratch -34 grams per dose -Boundaries like
bruises -On forbidden rooms and intentional forgetting -Crude
collages of my mother -Not your noble savage -Sontag, in snapshots:
reflecting on "In Plato's Cave" in 2018 -Extraction mentalities.
