Stitching Love and Loss: A Gees Bend Quilt Collins Lisa Gail
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gees Bend Quilt Collins Lisa Gail In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Interpreting…
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Stitching Love and Loss: A Gees Bend Quilt Collins Lisa Gail
In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. 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? 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.
What are the roles for creativity in grief? How is loss expressed and remembered? And how might a closely