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Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
by bell hooks

    Publication Date: Oct 15, 1997
    List Price: $16.00
    Format: Paperback, 208 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780805055122
    Imprint: Holt Paperbacks
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

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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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