Constructing A Nervous System : Cultural Reckonings
ISBN: 9781783789009
Author | Jefferson, Margo |
Pub Date | 17/04/2022 |
Binding | Trade PB |
Country | IRL |
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Quick overview Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy reimagined in the artworks of Kara Walker, white supremacy in the novels of Willa Cather, and more, this breathtakingly eloquent account is both a critique and a vindication of the constructed self.