Bibliograph

A mind spread out on the ground, Alicia Elliott

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A mind spread out on the ground, Alicia Elliott

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A mind spread out on the ground

Responsibility statement

Alicia Elliott

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir

Summary

"The Mohawk phrase for depression, Wake' nikonhra'kwenhtará:'on, can be roughly translated to 'a mind spread out on the ground.' Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of persona, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes connections between the past and present, the personal and political."--Back cover

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