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Stitching love and loss : a Gee's Bend quilt

Title
Stitching love and loss : a Gee's Bend quilt / Lisa Gail Collins.
Author
Collins, Lisa Gail
Publication
  • Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Description
xxiv, 172 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm
Summary
In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself, readily recalled the cover made by her grieving mother within the small African American farming community of Gee's Bend, Alabama. At once a story of grief, a quilt, and a community, 'Stitching Love and Loss' connects Missouri Pettway's cotton covering to the history of a place, its residents, and the work of mourning. Interpreting varied sources of history and memory, Lisa Gail Collins engages crucial and enduring questions, simultaneously singular and shared: What are the languages, practices, and processes of mourning? How is loss expressed and remembered? What are the roles for creativity in grief? And how might a closely crafted material object, in its conception, construction, use, and memory, serve the work of grieving a loved one? Placing this singular quilt within its historical and cultural context, Collins illuminates the perseverance and creativity of the African American women quilters in this rural Black Belt community.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • "A V Ethel Willis White book."--Page iv.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Missouri Pettway's quilt made in mourning -- Chapter 1. Woven within the land -- Chapter 2. Carrying history and memory -- Chapter 3. Seeking sanctuary -- Chapter 4. Lined with labor -- Chapter 5. Shared care and prayer -- Chapter 6. Conclusion. Sacred utility -- Coda. Pulled to this place.
Call Number
Sc D 23-879
ISBN
  • 9780295751603
  • 0295751606
  • 9780295751610
  • 0295751614
  • 9780295751627 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022056039
OCLC
1348285666
Author
Collins, Lisa Gail, author.
Title
Stitching love and loss : a Gee's Bend quilt / Lisa Gail Collins.
Publisher
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-879
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