Bushwhacking: How to Get Lost in the Woods and Write Your Way Out

Bushwhacking: How to Get Lost in the Woods and Write Your Way OutWhen you stray from a trail and strike out into the woods, you are bushwhacking. The term implies a physical thrashing aboutpushing past branches, slicing through thickets, leaping across downed treesbut it also implies a certain fortitude and resilience to seek places unknown. In Bushwhacking, Jennifer McGaha borrows the term, likening it to what writers do when faced with the equally daunting blank page. Exploring the wilderness of your inner life

and threats to their lives

That clashes with her accustomed taste for the finer things in life

Walcott names this condition the long emancipation—the ongoing interdiction of potential Black freedom and the continuation of the juridical and legislative status of Black nonbeing

cold winter

Committed to promoting and supporting microcredit initiatives

Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans

led by a brazen dictator

Black Boy: Celebrate Remarkable Moments in Black History with this Uplif

cultural sensitivity

who has worked on combatting malaria and lack of energy in Sierra Leone before turning to custom-made prosthetics

Two families

Examining the ways African American