My Deepest Desire HISTORY / Americas (North Foregrounding the large body of

Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past

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My Deepest Desire HISTORY / Americas (North Foregrounding the large body ofMy Deepest Desire is Tamiki Haras final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grippingly moving meditation on the desire to live a different, fuller life, free from pain, isolation, and the intrusively haunting experience of tragedy, it is a demonstration of how dreams, memories, and traumatic despair intertwine inside a persons psyche.