Red Dirt

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-28
Publisher(s): Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Summary

A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Red Dirtunearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Oklahoma Edition ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue: The Great Good Luck of the Found Horseshoe 1(8)
Red Diaper Baby?
9(12)
Dust Bowl Baby
21(16)
Prairie Red Wing
37(6)
Patrimony
43(6)
Once Master of the House
49(18)
Fields of Clover
67(22)
Buried Treasure
89(24)
Becoming a Girl
113(18)
Plagues
131(8)
She-Lion
139(20)
Trying to Be a Typical Teenager
159(24)
Higher Education
183(14)
Diamond in the Rough
197(22)
Epilogue: California Litany 219(6)
Afterword to the Oklahoma Edition 225

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