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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

by bell hooks

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Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child’s journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the emotional vulnerability of children. She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. In this world, too, black is a woman’s color—worn when earned—daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about. hooks finds good company in solitude, good company in books. She also discovers, in the motionless body of misunderstanding, that writing is her most vital breath.

Synopsis:

Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South.

About the Author

bell hooks is the author of several books, including Killing Rage, Bone Black, and Wounds of Passion. She is Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York and lives in New York City.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780805055122
Subtitle:
Memories of Girlhood
Author:
Hooks, Bell
Author:
Hooks, Bell
Publisher:
Holt McDougal
Location:
New York :
Subject:
People of Color
Subject:
Women
Subject:
United states
Subject:
African American Studies
Subject:
Feminists
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
African-American women
Subject:
cultural heritage
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st Owl book ed.
Edition Description:
Owl Book
Series:
Bone Black
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
October 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
744x500x56 44

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