Naming Myself - Barbara Kingsolver

Named himself in the poem of Kingsolver, the talker tells his father and his surname. He explained how his grandfather came from Virginia during his trip to abandon his slavery and his life. The narrator 's grandfather stole the horse and ran away the marriage of a native American woman. His grandfather has created a new name and new identity for himself, but the talker knows how the native American of their legacy was buried, and the newly discovered of their identity they want to discover I explained the part. He explained that even though he wanted to get rid of his current name, his ancestor part would always be a part of him.

Barbara King Solver was born in Kentucky in 1955. As a hybrid, Kingsolver's works always include images from native languages ​​and Kentucky natives as well as episodes from mixed-family families. The poem "Name Yourself" was published in her poetry "Another America: Otra America" ​​in 1992. This is a story poem that tells stories about her surname. Kingsolver first tells us how to protect her name and please let us know how important her name is to her. The story is her grandfather in Virginia when people owned slaves. But he fell in love with a born woman. He steered the horse and ran to see the lover. This act lost his family name, so Kingsolver now has this name. Finally, Kingsolver says to us that she will not change her name, "The name will be uncomfortable there."