McKinney Steward is transformed into the fictional Dr. “One of the most profound questions for a lot of art, and a lot of novels in particular, is how people explain to themselves.” McKinney Steward and her family while working at the Weeksville Heritage Center, a historic site dedicated to a former settlement of free African Americans that flourished in the 19th century in what is now Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She also co-founded the Brooklyn Women’s Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary at a time when homeopathy was considered state-of-the-art medicine. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, who in 1869 became the first Black female doctor in New York. Libertie was inspired by the true story of Dr. Speaking by phone from Massachusetts, Greenidge discusses her novel’s deep roots in history and the literary traditions created by Toni Morrison, whom she describes as “the mother of everything.” The legacy of medicine, trauma, motherhood and marriage in Black American communities provides the groundwork for Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel, Libertie, an engrossing study of a headstrong mother and her equally headstrong daughter.
For the author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman, writing is as much an adventure of discovering new history as it is an act of creative expression.
0 kommentar(er)
