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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.

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the... Read more

    Publisher: Granta Books
    Publication Date: 14/04/2022
    ISBN13: 9781783789009, 978-1783789009
    ISBN10: 178378900X

    Number of Pages: 208

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    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.

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