Annotations
By: John Keene.
Series: New Directions paperbook ;; 809
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction.; African American youth -- Fiction.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles - from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.