Name: Constructing a Nervous System : A Memoir by Jefferson, Margo
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Constructing a Nervous System : A Memoir by Jefferson, Margo

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Author: Jefferson, Margo

North America

Published on 6 April 2023 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 208 pages
198 x 129 x 13 | 152g

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND’This is one of the most imaginative – and therefore moving – memoirs I have ever read’ – Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce AttachmentsMargo 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 vindicati

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