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Archive for June 2, 2011

YOU ARE FREE: STORIES by Danzy Senna

What does it mean to be biracial and free in postmillennial America? The writer James Baldwin is quoted as saying, “Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.”

By that definition, do the young interracial women that inhabit Danzy Senna’s first collection of short stories want to be free? Or do they want to belong to a collective… something, larger than themselves? The answer, as one might suspect, is complicated.

June 2, 2011 · Judi Clark · No Comments
Tags: Short Stories · Posted in: Class - Race - Gender, Identity, Motherhood, Short Stories

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