TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beck,Jane C.
TI  - Daisy Turner's kin: an African American family saga 
T2  - Folklore studies in a multicultural world
SN  - 9780252097287
AV  - E185.96 .B43 2015eb
U1  - 920.0092/96/073 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Turner, Daisy,
KW  - Turner family.
KW  - African American families
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Familles noires américaines
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Personal Memoirs
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Slavery
KW  - fast
KW  - Families
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction. The Turner narrative and memory -- Meeting Daisy -- African roots -- Jack Gouldin and Robert Berkeley -- Plantation life -- Civil War -- Postwar -- Vermont -- Journey's end -- Daisy's last years -- Afterword -- Research and acknowledgments -- Appendix. Turner family genealogical chart
N2  - A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--Began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont--in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards--and uses--of memory
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