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==Career== | ==Career== |
Shortly after graduating from Stanford, Gyasi began writing her debut novel ''[[Homegoing (Gyasi novel)|Homegoing]]'' while working at a tech startup company in San Francisco. She resigned in 2012 when she was accepted to the University of Iowa and switched focus to writing full time.<ref name=SFG-160628 /> | Shortly after graduating from Stanford, Gyasi began writing her debut novel ''[[Homegoing (Gyasi novel)|Homegoing]]'' while working at a tech startup company in San Francisco. She resigned in 2012 when she was accepted to the University of Iowa and switched focus to writing full-time.<ref name=SFG-160628 /> |
''[[Homegoing (Gyasi novel)|Homegoing]]'' was inspired by a 2009 trip to Ghana, funded by a grant to research her first book. Gyasi traveled to her mother's ancestral [[Ashanti Region|Ashanti]] home in [[Kumasi]], visited with relatives, and toured the [[Cape Coast Castle]], a colonial trading fort used to hold enslaved Africans before boarding ships to the Americas.<ref name=":03">{{Cite news |last=Wolfe |first=By Eli |title=How Yaa Gyasi found her story in slavers’ outpost |url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/How-Yaa-Gyasi-found-her-story-in-slavers-8329849.php |access-date=2024-05-09 |work=SFGATE |language=en}}</ref> This history contextualizes the novel's story, beginning with half-sisters Effia and Esi in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia weds a British commander of Cape Coast Castle, while Esi is held captive in the dungeons of the castle before being forced onto a slave ship. The following chapters alternate between the perspectives of Effia's descendent and Esi's descendants, spanning a total of seven generations to present-day United States.<ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Mikić |first=Marijana |title=Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology |date=2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781032198538 |pages=100-114 |chapter=Chapter 6 Race, Trauma, and the Emotional Legacies of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing}}</ref> The effects of colonialism are tracked through each family member and the historical milestones they live through, including conflict between the [[Fante people|Fante]] and [[Asante people|Asante]] nations, the beginning of cocoa farming in Ghana, plantation slavery in the American South, [[Penal labour|convict labor]] during the [[Reconstruction era]], the [[civil rights movement]], and the [[Crack epidemic in the United States|crack epidemic]] of the 1980s.<ref name=":32">{{Cite journal |last=Goyal |first=Yogita |date=2019 |title=An Interview with Yaa Gyasi |url=https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/773068 |journal=Contemporary Literature |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=471-490 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref><ref name=":03" /> | ''[[Homegoing (Gyasi novel)|Homegoing]]'' was inspired by a 2009 trip to Ghana, funded by a grant to research her first book. Gyasi traveled to her mother's ancestral [[Ashanti Region|Ashanti]] home in [[Kumasi]], visited with relatives, and toured the [[Cape Coast Castle]], a colonial trading fort used to hold enslaved Africans before boarding ships to the Americas.<ref name=":03">{{Cite news |last=Wolfe |first=By Eli |title=How Yaa Gyasi found her story in slavers’ outpost |url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/How-Yaa-Gyasi-found-her-story-in-slavers-8329849.php |access-date=2024-05-09 |work=SFGATE |language=en}}</ref> This history contextualizes the novel's story, beginning with half-sisters Effia and Esi in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia weds a British commander of Cape Coast Castle, while Esi is held captive in the dungeons of the castle before being forced onto a slave ship. The following chapters alternate between the perspectives of Effia's descendent and Esi's descendants, spanning a total of seven generations to present-day United States.<ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Mikić |first=Marijana |title=Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology |date=2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781032198538 |pages=100-114 |chapter=Chapter 6 Race, Trauma, and the Emotional Legacies of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing}}</ref> The effects of colonialism are tracked through each family member and the historical milestones they live through, including conflict between the [[Fante people|Fante]] and [[Asante people|Asante]] nations, the beginning of cocoa farming in Ghana, plantation slavery in the American South, [[Penal labour|convict labor]] during the [[Reconstruction era]], the [[civil rights movement]], and the [[Crack epidemic in the United States|crack epidemic]] of the 1980s.<ref name=":32">{{Cite journal |last=Goyal |first=Yogita |date=2019 |title=An Interview with Yaa Gyasi |url=https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/773068 |journal=Contemporary Literature |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=471-490 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref><ref name=":03" /> |
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In 2021, Gyasi authored the short story "Bad Blood" to be featured in [[The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story]]. The story depicts a young black mother's hypochondria as an effect of the history of racism and discrimination in healthcare, citing the 1932 [[Tuskegee Syphilis Study]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-09-14 |title=Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/podcasts/1619-slavery-healthcare.html |access-date=2024-05-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | In 2021, Gyasi authored the short story "Bad Blood" to be featured in [[The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story]]. The story depicts a young black mother's hypochondria as an effect of the history of racism and discrimination in healthcare, citing the 1932 [[Tuskegee Syphilis Study]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-09-14 |title=Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/podcasts/1619-slavery-healthcare.html |access-date=2024-05-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
Gyasi has been outspoken about her widespread recognition as a black author. In March 2021, she wrote an article in ''The Guardian'' about the resurgent popularity of ''Homegoing'' during [[Black Lives Matter]] protests the previous summer. She wrote: "While I do devoutly believe in the power of literature to challenge, to deepen, to change, I also know that buying books by black authors is but a theoretical, grievously belated and utterly impoverished response to centuries of physical and emotional harm."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gyasi|first=Yaa|date=2021-03-20|title=White people, black authors are not your medicine|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...r-medicine|access-date=2021-03-21|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> | Gyasi has been outspoken about her widespread recognition as a black author. In March 2021, she wrote an article in ''The Guardian'' about the resurgent popularity of ''Homegoing'' during the [[Black Lives Matter]] protests the previous summer. She wrote: "While I do devoutly believe in the power of literature to challenge, to deepen, to change, I also know that buying books by black authors is but a theoretical, grievously belated and utterly impoverished response to centuries of physical and emotional harm."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gyasi|first=Yaa|date=2021-03-20|title=White people, black authors are not your medicine|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...r-medicine|access-date=2021-03-21|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> |
==Works== | ==Works== |
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==Awards== | ==Awards== |
* 2016: [[National Book Critics Circle Award|National Book Critics Circle]]'s [[National Book Critics Circle Award#John Leonard Award|John Leonard Award]] for best first book<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive...016-awards|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 17, 2017|title=National Book Critics Circle: National Book Critics Circle Announces 2016 Award Winners - Critical Mass Blog|author=Admin|website=bookcritics.org|date=March 16, 2017|access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref> | * 2016: [[National Book Critics Circle Award|National Book Critics Circle]]'s [[National Book Critics Circle Award#John Leonard Award|John Leonard Award]] for Best First Book<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive...016-awards|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 17, 2017|title=National Book Critics Circle: National Book Critics Circle Announces 2016 Award Winners - Critical Mass Blog|author=Admin|website=bookcritics.org|date=March 16, 2017|access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref> |
* 2016: [[National Book Foundation]]'s "[[National Book Foundation#5 Under 35|5 under 35]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=5 Under 35 2016 |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/5-under-35-2016/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=National Book Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> | * 2016: [[National Book Foundation]]'s "[[National Book Foundation#5 Under 35|5 under 35]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=5 Under 35 2016 |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/5-under-35-2016/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=National Book Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> |
* 2017: [[American Book Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/466/|title=2017 American Book Awards announced|publisher=Before Columbus Foundation|language=en|access-date=February 9, 2019|archive-date=February 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2019020...tion.com/foundation-news/466/|url-status=dead}}</ref> | * 2017: [[American Book Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/466/|title=2017 American Book Awards announced|publisher=Before Columbus Foundation|language=en|access-date=February 9, 2019|archive-date=February 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2019020...tion.com/foundation-news/466/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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