Anarcha Speaks 9780807009314, 9780807009215, 0807009210

"Anarcha Speaks is the reimagined story of an enslaved woman who was subject to medical experimentation at the hand

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Anarcha Speaks
 9780807009314, 9780807009215, 0807009210

Table of contents :
Section I She Is a Woman Therefore She Remembers --
Anarcha Will Speak and It Will Be So p. 3 --
Ghosts I Got p. 4 --
Preacher Give Us the Story of Job p. 6 --
Benediction p. 7 --
Massa's House p. 8 --
Don't Wanna Hear It But p. 9 --
From a Star I See Everything p. 12 --
Black Gold p. 13 --
Chil'ren Might Know p. 15 --
They Bringin in More p. 17 --
Anarcha Feels Movement p. 18 --
One Boy Named Montgomery p. 19 --
Lucy Made a Girl p. 20 --
She Need Help I Caint Manage It p. 21 --
Unquenchable Season p. 22 --
Pronounce Me Lord p. 23 --
I Shoulda Known Heaven First p. 25 --
When I Get There p. 26 --
She Got Further Than Anybody p. 28 --
Conjure p. 30 --
I Prove p. 32 --
Massa Wants to Know p. 34 --
A Powerful Spell p. 35 --
Alabama but I Don't Know It p. 36 --
Missus, Big with Somebody Too p. 37 --
What Do It Take p. 38 --
Danger on the Other Side p. 40 --
Little Bird Don't Know Nuthin p. 42 --
This Time It Hurts p. 43 --
Anarcha Dreams, OR How You Know You Ain't Gone p. 45 --
Midwife is no midwife p. 46 --
Drowned Boy, Call Him John p. 47 --
Doctor by Now p. 48 --
Marion Sims, the Doctor p. 49 --
Anarcha Makes Milk Anyway p. 52 --
Dr. Sims Comes Back, Makes an Offer p. 53 --
Anarcha Wilt Leave in the Morning p. 54 --
Etymology of Anarchy p. 56 --
Doctor/Massa Wants More p. 57 --
Section II Juxtaposition of Experience --
Blood Misbehaves: One Surgery as Anarcha Sees It p. 61 --
Blood Misbehaves: The Surgery as Dr. Sims Sees It p. 63 --
Not Dead but p. 64 --
How Doctor Sims Sees His Work p. 65 --
How Anarcha Sees His Work p. 66 --
Dr. Sims Makes Something New p. 67 --
When the Quiver Stops, Ain't No Jesus p. 68 --
Dr. Sims Will Buy 9 More p. 69 --
Anarcha, in Position p. 70 --
Dr. Sims Explains p. 71 --
Flicker p. 72 --
Dr. Sims Comes Clean p. 73 --
Anarcha, Anarcha Come On Out p. 75 --
New Gals, No Good p. 78 --
Things Past Tellin p. 80 --
A Wizard and His Magic, Nothing More p. 82 --
No Magic, No How p. 83 --
Doctor Figures It Out p. 85 --
Doctor Gives Her Opium After p. 86 --
Conniption p. 87 --
First Is Last: How the Doctor Sees It p. 89 --
First Is Last: How Anarcha Sees It p. 91.

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