Constructing a Nervous System - Margo Jefferson

Constructing a Nervous System

A Memoir

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2022
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-554-4 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND
Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023

'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs I have ever read' - Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments

Margo Jefferson boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.

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.

'Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System is as electric as its title suggests. It takes vital risks, tosses away rungs of the ladder as it climbs, and offers an indispensable, rollicking account of the enchantments, pleasures, costs, and complexities of "imagin[ing] and interpret[ing] what had not imagined you' - Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

'If you want to know who we are and where we've been, read Margo Jefferson' - Edmund White, author of A Previous Life

'This is a moving portrait of the life of a brilliant African American woman's mind. Margo Jefferson is so real, her sensibility so literary, her learning such a joy. The gifts of reading her are many' - Darryl Pinckney, author of Sold and Gone

The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson was a theatre and book critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York magazine and New Republic. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of Negroland - shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award - and On Michael Jackson.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 143 x 224 mm
Gewicht 315 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10 1-78378-554-3 / 1783785543
ISBN-13 978-1-78378-554-4 / 9781783785544
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