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Stitching Love and Loss : A Gee's Bend Quilt by Lisa Gail Collins (2025, Trade Paperback)

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At once a story of grief, a quilt, and a community,Stitching Love and Loss connects Missouri Pettway's cotton covering to the history of a place, its residents, and the work of mourning. What are the roles for creativity in grief?.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Washington Press

ISBN-100295753757

ISBN-139780295753751

eBay Product ID (ePID)13072291732

Product Key Features

Book TitleStitching Love and Loss : a Gee's Bend Quilt

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicGrief & Loss, Folk & Outsider Art, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

GenreArt, Social Science, Psychology

AuthorLisa Gail Collins

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsBased on over a decade of research and three trips to Gee's Bend, Collins's book analyzes Pettway's quilt visually and materially from the stains on the knees of her husband Nathaniel's work clothes to her daughter Arlonzia's memories of the quilt. Together these stories weave the historical impact of slavery, poverty, spirituality, and community in Gee's Bend, providing a deeper understanding of the role of quilts within the Southern Black Belt of Alabama., Stitching Love and Loss is an interdisciplinary study as multilayered as the pieced-together quilt at its core. . . Collins's precise yet poetic prose evokes gut-wrenching images of a wife and mother tending to her wounds and feeling her husband's presence through the material remnants of his life., [Collins] offers her readers a different sort of journey, an emotive contemplation--at times rumination--on the nature of grief as it may have been expressed in one rural, Black Alabama family through the creation of one utilitarian quilt.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal976.13800496073

SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University of Maryland Shortlisted for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum Finalist for the 2024 Sterling Stuckey Book Prize by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself, readily recalled the cover made by her grieving mother within the small African American farming community of Gee's Bend, Alabama. At once a story of grief, a quilt, and a community, Stitching Love and Loss connects Missouri Pettway's cotton covering to the history of a place, its residents, and the work of mourning. Interpreting varied sources of history and memory, Lisa Gail Collins engages crucial and enduring questions, simultaneously singular and shared: What are the languages, practices, and processes of mourning? How is loss expressed and remembered? What are the roles for creativity in grief? And how might a closely crafted material object, in its conception, construction, use, and memory, serve the work of grieving a loved one? Placing this singular quilt within its historical and cultural context, Collins illuminates the perseverance and creativity of the African American women quilters in this rural Black Belt community.

LC Classification NumberVEW