The Resource The women, Hilton Als
The women, Hilton Als
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The item The women, Hilton Als represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item The women, Hilton Als represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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- Daring, fiercely original, and brilliant, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects. Als begins with his mother, a self-described "Negress, " who would not be defined by the limitations of race and gender. He goes on to ask who the mother of Malcolm X was, and shows how her mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's misogyny and racism. He describes how the brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean rarely identified with other blacks or women, but deeply empathized with white gay men. Finally, he portrays the late Owen Dodson, a poet and dramatist who was female-identified and who played an important role in the author's own social and intellectual formation
- Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to his inimitable scrutiny with relentless humor and sympathy. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form all its own
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 145 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374525293
- Label
- The women
- Title
- The women
- Statement of responsibility
- Hilton Als
- Subject
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- African American women -- Intellectual life
- African Americans -- Race identity
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Authorship -- Sex differences
- African American women -- Biography
- Identity (Psychology)
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Gender identity -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Daring, fiercely original, and brilliant, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects. Als begins with his mother, a self-described "Negress, " who would not be defined by the limitations of race and gender. He goes on to ask who the mother of Malcolm X was, and shows how her mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's misogyny and racism. He describes how the brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean rarely identified with other blacks or women, but deeply empathized with white gay men. Finally, he portrays the late Owen Dodson, a poet and dramatist who was female-identified and who played an important role in the author's own social and intellectual formation
- Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to his inimitable scrutiny with relentless humor and sympathy. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form all its own
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Als, Hilton
- Dewey number
- 810.9896
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- Women and literature
- African American women
- African American women
- African Americans
- Gender identity
- Authorship
- Identity (Psychology)
- Label
- The women, Hilton Als
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm34669309
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 145 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374525293
- Lccn
- 96018360
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The women, Hilton Als
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm34669309
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 145 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374525293
- Lccn
- 96018360
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- African American women -- Intellectual life
- African Americans -- Race identity
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Authorship -- Sex differences
- African American women -- Biography
- Identity (Psychology)
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Gender identity -- United States
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