Gemini (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nikki Giovanni
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Essays
- Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Memory, Race, South or Southerners, Self, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Grandparents or grandchildren
- Locales: Cincinnati, OH, Knoxville, TN
Gemini, so titled because of the sign of the zodiac under which Giovanni was born, is subtitled An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet. As such, Gemini is not a strictly chronological autobiography in the usual sense; rather, it is a collection of carefully selected and arranged recollections and observations that helped her develop into the black revolutionary poet that she was at the time of its writing. Published when Giovanni was twenty-eight, most of the pieces had indeed been written several years earlier,...
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