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Daisy Turner's Kin

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A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her—"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"—began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life.

In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont—in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards—and uses—of memory.

Publication of this book is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.| Cover Title page Copyright page Contents List of Illustrations Introduction. The Turner Narrative and Memory 1. Meeting Daisy 2. African Roots 3. Jack Gouldin and Robert Berkeley 4. Plantation Life 5. Civil War 6. Postwar 7. Vermont 8. Journey's End 9. Daisy's Last Years Afterword Research and Acknowledgments Appendix. Family Tree Notes Bibliography Index | Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 — American Folklore Society
Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 — American Folklore Society
Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 — A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
|Jane C. Beck is Executive Director Emeritus and Founder of the Vermont Folklife Center. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Vermont Research at the University of Vermont in 2011.
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A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her—"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"—began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life.

In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont—in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards—and uses—of memory.

Publication of this book is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.| Cover Title page Copyright page Contents List of Illustrations Introduction. The Turner Narrative and Memory 1. Meeting Daisy 2. African Roots 3. Jack Gouldin and Robert Berkeley 4. Plantation Life 5. Civil War 6. Postwar 7. Vermont 8. Journey's End 9. Daisy's Last Years Afterword Research and Acknowledgments Appendix. Family Tree Notes Bibliography Index | Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 — American Folklore Society
Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 — American Folklore Society
Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 — A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
|Jane C. Beck is Executive Director Emeritus and Founder of the Vermont Folklife Center. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Vermont Research at the University of Vermont in 2011.
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Biography & Autobiography Multi-Cultural Sociology Nonfiction
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