Welcome to Braggsville
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : William Morrow, [2015].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780062302120, 0062302124, 9780062302137, 0062302132
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Headquarters Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION JOHNSON 2015 | In |
Subjects
LC Subjects
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Berkeley (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Black humor (Literature)
Black humor (Literature)
Davenport, D'aron (Fictitious character)
États-Unis (Sud) -- Relations raciales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Géorgie (État) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Satire.
Satire.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction
Southern states -- Race relations -- Fiction.
Black humor (Literature)
Black humor (Literature)
Davenport, D'aron (Fictitious character)
États-Unis (Sud) -- Relations raciales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Géorgie (État) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Satire.
Satire.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction
Southern states -- Race relations -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : William Morrow, [2015].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780062302120, 0062302124, 9780062302137, 0062302132
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-351).
Description
Born and raised in the heart of old Dixie, D'aron Davenport finds himself in unfamiliar territory his freshman year at UC Berkeley. Two thousand miles and a world away from his childhood, he is a small-town fish floundering in the depths of a large, hyper-liberal pond. Caught between the prosaic values of his rural hometown and the intellectualized multicultural cosmopolitanism of Berzerkeley, the nineteen-year-old white kid is uncertain about his place until one disastrous party brings him three idiosyncratic best friends: Louis, a "kung-fu comedian" from California; Candice, an earnest do-gooder claiming Native roots from Iowa; and Charlie, an introspective inner-city black teen from Chicago. They dub themselves the "4 Little Indians." But everything changes in the group's alternative history class, when D'aron lets slip that his Georgia hometown hosts an annual Civil War reenactment, recently rebranded "Patriot Days." His announcement is met with righteous indignation, and inspires Candice to suggest a "performative intervention" to protest the reenactment. Armed with youthful self-importance, makeshift slave costumes, righteous zeal, and their own misguided ideas about the South, the 4 Little Indians descend on Braggsville. Their journey through backwoods churches, backroom politics, Waffle Houses, and drunken family barbecues is uproarious to start, but will have devastating consequences. Using a panoply of styles and tones, from tragicomic to Southern Gothic, Johnson skewers issues of class, race, intellectual and political chauvinism, Obamaism, social media, and much more.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Johnson, T. G. (2015). Welcome to Braggsville (First edition.). William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Johnson, T. Geronimo. 2015. Welcome to Braggsville. William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Johnson, T. Geronimo. Welcome to Braggsville William Morrow, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Johnson, T. Geronimo. Welcome to Braggsville First edition., William Morrow, 2015.
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