- Biography, Feminists, Childhood and youth, Afro-Americans
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.
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Contemplative, earnest, character-led and grave.
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Bell Hooks
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Dialogue Books, Worth Publishers, Incorporated, Henry Holt and Co.
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805041460
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“MAMA HAS GIVEN me a quilt from her hope chest.”
Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. - modified from Wikipedia
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