Bessie's Resurrection

Bessie's Resurrection by Kimberly A. Collins Audiobook
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Product Info

Sounded ID: 9781662176685

ISBN: 9781662176685

Publication Date: January 06, 2021

Publisher: Author's Republic

Language: English

Author Name: Kimberly A. Collins

Narrator Name: Kimberly A. Collins

Studio Narrated Audiobook 1 hrs 18 mins | POETRY | American | African American and Black

Bessie's Resurrection

Publisher
Author's Republic
Narrator
Kimberly A. Collins

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

Bessie's Resurrection gives voice to Richard Wright's fictional character Bessie Mears from his novel Native Son (1940). These poems offer Bessie room to articulte her experiences as an African American woman and how she suffes in her unenviable position, powerless and unseen. Here, Bessie's fictive character is self actualized by two historical African American trailblazers: Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith who lived during the same time period when Bessie's story takes place. These poems, which reimagine their lives, are a microcosim of the lived experiences of African American women who face...

Bessie's Resurrection gives voice to Richard Wright's fictional character Bessie Mears from his novel Native Son (1940). These poems offer Bessie room to articulte her experiences as an African American woman and how she suffes in her unenviable position, powerless and unseen. Here, Bessie's fictive character is self actualized by two historical African American trailblazers: Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith who lived during the same time period when Bessie's story takes place. These poems, which reimagine their lives, are a microcosim of the lived experiences of African American women who face violence, limitations and challenges, Their voices and bodies are resurrected to articulate their ideas of worth to claim a space to speak not only for themselves but also for their sisters who are voiceless. Their lives become three songs which are analogous to the sections in Wright's novel: Fear, Flight and Fate. While Bessie Mears supplies the soundtrack to Bigger's story, it is Bessie Smith's blues sung by Colie Aziza which serve as the soundtrack for Bessie's Resurrection. This collection of poems, written for all three Bessie's, honors Black women as the necessary backbone to the fight against their voices and their bodies being buried alive.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. LANDR-Title -Balanced-Medium

0 mins 21 secs

2. 1.Bessie's Gospel

4 mins 30 secs

3. 2.Elisheba (1)

1 mins 09 secs

4. 3.Bessie's Lost Song

0 mins 33 secs

5. 4.3 Bessie Bop

2 mins 23 secs

6. 5.A Long Blues Note

1 mins 08 secs

7. 6.A Burning Lesson

0 mins 50 secs

8. 7.Washer Woman

0 mins 46 secs

9. 8.UPSOUTH

0 mins 51 secs

10. 9.Bessie' Cry

1 mins 06 secs

11. 10.Waiting On Bigger

0 mins 58 secs

12. 11.SHE Song

1 mins 08 secs

13. 12.Bessie's Good Day

2 mins 10 secs

14. 13.Bigger Brick

1 mins 15 secs

15. 14.Front Page News

1 mins 53 secs

16. 15.Dancing Shadows

1 mins 14 secs

17. 16.For The Marys

0 mins 28 secs

18. 17.Bigger's Plea To Beassie Mears

1 mins 18 secs

19. 18.Bessie's (Almoet) Rescue

2 mins 15 secs

20. 19.Hereafter

1 mins 25 secs

21. 20.Bessie's Drink

1 mins 18 secs

22. 21.Bessie Who

1 mins 14 secs

23. 22.Bench Bop

1 mins 50 secs

24. 23.Baaaaybe

1 mins 54 secs

25. 24.Dick Dumb

1 mins 26 secs

26. 25.They Said All She Need Is Some Dick

2 mins 27 secs

27. 26.Bessie's Resurrection

1 mins 59 secs

28. 27.Rock Island Train

1 mins 42 secs

29. 28.Bessie To Bessie

2 mins 55 secs

30. 29.Passport To Freedom

0 mins 41 secs

31. 30.Cockpit

0 mins 23 secs

32. 31.Juneteenth, 1925

0 mins 42 secs

33. 32.You Ask Why I Fly

1 mins 12 secs

34. 33.Queen Bess

2 mins 32 secs

35. 34.Bessie Answers The Woman Question

0 mins 51 secs

36. 35.The Truth About Flying

0 mins 47 secs

37. 36.Paris Blues

0 mins 36 secs

38. 37.Forget-Me-Nots

1 mins 13 secs

39. 38.Bessie's Men

1 mins 06 secs

40. 39.Flying African

1 mins 08 secs

41. 40.What About Bessie

0 mins 59 secs

42. 41.Was Not Built To Break

1 mins 56 secs

43. 42.Native Daughter

1 mins 22 secs

44. 43.Blues Manifesto

0 mins 47 secs

45. 44.Bessie BE (A Praise Song)

0 mins 40 secs

46. 45.Bessie's Woman

0 mins 57 secs

47. 46.Pieces Of A Dream

0 mins 55 secs

48. 47.S.B on B.S (1)

1 mins 43 secs

49. 48.Hand Me Down Mean

1 mins 31 secs

50. 49.Bessie's Every Woman's Blues

1 mins 14 secs

51. 50. A Golden Shovel- They Call Me Empress

1 mins 38 secs

52. 51. Bessie's Last Song

1 mins 07 secs

53. 52.Bessie's Final Moan

0 mins 17 secs

54. 53.Why Bessie

5 mins 29 secs

55. -Title -Balanced-Medium

0 mins 18 secs

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