Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood | 
 enlarge | Author: Bell Hooks
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0805055126
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.48896073
EAN: 9780805055122
ASIN: 0805055126
Publication Date: October 15, 1997
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bell hooks, who teaches English at New York's City College, is well-known as an abrasive, take-no-prisoners feminist cultural critic. In this moving memoir of her childhood she explains the roots of her forceful and rigorous attitude to life and literature. She grew up in a poor Southern black family, an heir to poverty and racism, surrounded by people too wrapped up in their own struggles to offer much help to her. She writes here of her mother's suffering in an abusive marriage, of her siblings' rejection of her for being "different," of her own painful discovery of sexuality, and of how she found escape through books.
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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.
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 A quick read.. March 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this memoir faster than I have read a memoir in a very long time. Parts of it were very moving and other parts I as the reader--could have done without. I have picked up another book that I think is a follow up to this memoir--we will see how that one goes.
 Memories with imagination and maturity May 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
bell hooks is known for her many books on the politics of art and culture. This addition is more about the processing of becoming a mature thoughtful writer. Her road was a painful one but all that she experienced fortified her work process and personality. There is some beautiful visual writing and depth in bell hooks' bone black.
GREAT BOOK, GREAT AUTHOR October 24, 2002
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is especially for intelligent black females, but is for all who want to understand the pains of growing up being a poor black female.
you know her work, now get to know the author January 28, 2001
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I couldn't stop turning the pages of this brutally honest tale of a black, southern, woman who grows up knowing that she is diffrent. And therefore, her life will be diffrent.This little book gives an intimate look, at the writer some say is the most prolific writer on race, gender and class. hooks, uses words extremely cautiously whick makes this piece on you simply can't put down. Eat this book!
you know her work, now get to know the author January 27, 2001
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I couldn't stop turning the pages of this brutally honest tale of a black, southern, woman who grows up knowing that she is different. And therefore, her life will be different.This little book gives an intimate look, at the writer some say is the most prolific writer on race, gender and class. hooks, uses words extremely cautiously whick makes this piece on you simply can't put down. ...
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