{"product_id":"landscape-with-bloodfeud","title":"Landscape with Bloodfeud","description":"Scarred by nuclear smokestacks, oil wells, and surging floodwaters, and haunted by the legacies of slavery, racism, and French rule, the Louisiana of \u003ci\u003eLandscape with Bloodfeud\u003c\/i\u003e is disenchanted but still exerts an undeniable pull. Reckoning with displacement, ancestral guilt, and centuries of human and environmental exploitation, Wendy Barnes dissects the state's turbulent past—as a microcosm of colonial oppression, westward expansion, and the birth of global capitalism. With an expat's detachment, our Louisiana-born speaker contemplates her fraught relationship with her home culture and her white working-class roots, raising questions about complicity and shame, as history \"bleeds us all for its tax, some for more, \/ digging down into every wet wound, \/ digging down among the taproots, under old folks' \/ marble tombs or unmarked graves.","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39921453367379,"sku":"","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781625346414.jpg?v=1777139126","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/landscape-with-bloodfeud","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}