The full text, Asenath and Our Song of Songs, will tell the full story. Asenath and the Origin of Nappy Hair tells half of the story.
In reaching toward each other, Shirah sailing toward the past, Asenath walking toward the future, they tell the lovesong of the human race, the love of freedom. Summary: Shirah Shulamit Ojero, an African American Jewish Graduate Student at the University of Pen Forest, discovers that her extravagantly nappy hair, eight circles per inch of hair, has connected her conceptually and biologically with the nappy haired ancient Egyptian priestess, Asenath, daughter of Poti-pherah, and eventually the wife of Joseph, son of Israel. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Published in the United States by Street to Street Epic Publications, Washington, DC. Text copyright © 2014 by Carolivia HerronĬover photograph © 2014 by Georgia Carol Johnson HerronĬover designed by Jackie Urbanovic Īll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. It is extracted from the novel, Asenath and Our Song of Songs, by Carolivia Herron, under contract to Random House. This book, Asenath and the Origin of Nappy Hair: Being a Collection of Tales Gathered and Extracted from the Epic Stanzas of Asenath and Our Song of Songs is published by Street to Street Epic Publications, Washington, DC.
Carolivia is a writer with the Pen-Faulkner Writers In Schools program, and is an active member of Tifereth Israel Congregation of Washington, DC. She directs the EpicCentering the National Mall project which connects the work of young local writers with our national epic as expressed in exhibits on the National Mall. Herron publishes and promotes the writings of Jews of Color internationally including books by the Igbo of Nigeria, the Lemba of Zimbabwe, and the Beta Israel of Ethiopia and Israel.
Most recently she has been the Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Project Humanities at Arizona State University.Ĭarolivia Herron has won writing awards and commendations from Be'chol Lashon, Kulanu, Parenting Magazine Reading Magic, Marian Vanett Ridgway Awards, the Patterson Poetry Center, the Elizabeth Stone Memorial Award, and the Exceptional women in the Arts Award from Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.ĭr. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and has held professorial appointments at Harvard University, Mount Holyoke College, California State University, Chico, and the College of William and Mary.
Carolivia Herron is an African American Jewish author, educator and publisher living in Washington, DC.
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