{"title":"Rebecca Carroll","description":"\u003cp\u003eRebecca Carroll's work invites readers into a rich exploration of identity, culture, and personal history. Her writing, marked by a keen sense of place and emotional depth, often delves into the intersections of race and belonging with striking candour and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the Arts \u0026amp; Culture tradition, Carroll's stories illuminate the nuances of human experience, offering thoughtful reflections that resonate long after the last page is turned. Her voice is both compelling and distinctive, making her work essential for those drawn to contemporary narratives with profound cultural significance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"i-know-what-the-red-clay-looks-like-by-rebecca-carroll-9798888902547","title":"I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Know What the Red Clay Looks Like\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1994, remains an essential text for readers of Black feminist literature in all genres. Featuring interviews with and excerpts by writers like Rita Dove, Pearl Cleage, Barbara Neely, June Jordan, and others, this indispensable work speaks to the intersections of politics and art-making along the lines of race, gender, sexuality, and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, writer and cultural critic Rebecca Carroll presents the original conversations alongside personalized introductions by some of the brightest voices in today's literary world, including Donika Kelly, Safiya Sinclair, Diamond Sharp, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, among others. This new edition also includes an introductory poem by Morgan Parker, a foreword by Salamishah Tillet, and a new author's note. The new contributors carry the torch of the original interviewees' lives and words with heart, rigour, gratitude, and radical imagination, illuminating how these conversations are about more than just writing—they are about life, relationships, joy, gratitude, wellness, and self-preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Know What the Red Clay Looks Like\u003c\/em\u003e is a book unbound by time, lifting up a chorus of past and present voices. Paying homage to a historic lineage of Black feminist writers and their impact on our current literary landscape, it is a book by and for the storytellers, the poets, the playwrights, the dreamers, and all readers interested in what it means to make art within and from marginalised spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461046059244,"sku":"9798888902547","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798888902547-i-know-what-the-red-clay-looks-like.jpg?v=1774956871"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/rebecca-carroll.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}