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The invitation
Title
The invitation / Clifton Taulbert.
ISBN
9781588383075 (hardcover)
1588383075 (hardcover)
9781603063517 (ebook)
Publication
Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2014]
Physical Description
xvi, 206 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
In The Invitation, Clifton Taulbert returns to the themes of Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, his award-winning book and the source of a major motion picture. This new memoir chronicles Taulbert's transformative experience of a supper invitation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, where the successful adult confronts his childhood memories and wrestles with the legacies of slavery and segregation that demand to be acknowledged in his present circumstances. Transported back to a setting that looks and feels like the cotton fields and shotgun shacks of his childhood, Taulbert finds himself expected to cross racial barriers that no "colored" man could have broached without dire consequences. The Invitation is the story of the man and the little boy inside him wrestling with a past they both know so well, and of stepping into a future that is still being determined.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 16, 2014
Contents
Public observations, private conversations
Watching and remembering
The chasm that separated our world
Standing alone, surrounded by history
An unexpected invitation
Uneasy moments, lingering thoughts
Bearing witness to the possibilities
Bearing the burden of history
Invisible people
Once forbidden
On the inside, looking out
Our bridge to cross
A familiar place
Private conversations
Our shared reality : the final divide
The epilogue.
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