Title: Annotations
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Fiction, African American families, African American youth, Fiction, general, Missouri, fiction, Saint louis (mo.), fiction, African americans, fiction
Places: Saint Louis (Mo.)
LC classification: PS3561.E3717 A82 1995