EAN: 9780141999746

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

'Magical ... truly original ... Writing of people who limited themselves and died of it Als has overcome limits' The New York Times Book Review What are the forces that shape us? Hilton Als's brilliant now-classic meditation on gender race and personal identity in America In The Women Hilton Als explores-with breath taking originality-the role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary characters including: his mother a singular woman whose West Indian heritage and determination inspired her son to write Malcolm X's mother whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's burgeoning misogyny and fear brilliant Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean who deeply empathized with white gay men and Owen Dodson teacher and poet who played an important role in the author's development as a gay man and thinker. Combining memoir cultural history social theory and storytelling The Women is a profoundly innovative work which has inspired a generation of writers. Here Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to scrutiny showing 'no mercy but every tenderness'. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form of all its own.

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