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Comfort stew : a play 🔍
Angela Jackson Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 2020
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What could be more painful than a missing child? And how might the community better support familiesespecially young, single mothers and their children? In Comfort Stew , acclaimed Chicago poet and playwright Angela Jackson addresses these questions in what she has called a meditation on motherhood and what it means to love. It is a call to community to renew its vows to the ancestors and to children so that no child is ever truly lost.
Hillary Robinson Clay, a self-reliant schoolteacher, is the first to notice when four-year-old Enjoli is absent from her preschool class. Guided by the memory of her mother and with support from Jake, a tough man who is capable of tenderness, Hillary parents her teenage daughter, Sojourner, who is the same age as Enjolis mother, Patrice. Jake is a storyteller and a good cop who follows Hillarys intuition and goes looking for Enjoli.
As their stories weave together, Jackson explores parenting, generational conflict, and tradition in the context of contemporary African American family life. Maternal wisdom is embodied by succeeding generations of black women in the recipe for an African stew, a dish Hillary learns to honor while adding a spice that makes it her own.
Alternative author
Jackson, Angela, 1951- author
Alternative publisher
Marlboro Press, The
Alternative publisher
TriQuarterly Books
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Hydra Books
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United States, United States of America
Alternative edition
Evanston, 2019
Alternative edition
Nov 15, 2019
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FR, 2019
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Source title: Comfort Stew: A Play
Alternative description
What could be more painful than a missing child? And how might the community better support families - especially young, single mothers and their children? In Comfort Stew, acclaimed Chicago poet and playwright Angela Jackson addresses these questions in what she has called ""a meditation on motherhood and what it means to love”.
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"The titular stew of Angela Jackson's urban drama is the spicy meal cooked by the main character, a dish that conjures up memories of her own brief childhood, which she fears will be repeated in the lives of her rebellious daughter Sojourner and neighborhood teen mother Patrice Rodgers"-- Provided by publisher
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xiv, 57 pages ; 23 cm
"The titular stew of Angela Jackson's urban drama is the spicy meal cooked by the main character, a dish that conjures up memories of her own brief childhood, which she fears will be repeated in the lives of her rebellious daughter Sojourner and neighborhood teen mother Patrice Rodgers"--
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2024-07-01
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