BORN IN BABYLON

BORN IN BABYLON

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Category: Non-Fiction
My school of indifference opened and never closed; I remained its only student.

BORN IN BABYLON is a collection of short essays, fragments, prose, creative nonfiction, and other miscellany regarding Blackness, womanhood, memory, identity, and America.

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ยฉ z. t. corley, 2024
Tags: africanamerican america anger apathy creativenonfiction eclectic erasure essays fragments girlhood hierarchies history identity injustice memories nonfiction poetry power prosepoetry resistance thoughtsandfeelings womanhood

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