Belonging

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place.

Informationen zum Autor bell hooks is a writer and critic who has taught most recently at Berea College in Kentucky, where she is Distinguished Professor in Residence. Among her many books are the feminist classic Ain't I A Woman, the dialogue (with Cornel West) Breaking Bread, the children's books Happy to Be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz, the memoir Bone Black (Holt), and the general interest titles All About Love, Rock My Soul, and Communion. She has published six titles with Routledge: We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real. Klappentext What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Zusammenfassung What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. PREFACE: to know where I m going 2. kentucky is my fate 3. mountains: consumed by suffering 4. touching the earth 5. reclamation and reconciliation 6. to be whole and holy 7. again segregation must end 8. representations of whiteness in the black imagination 9. drive through tobacco 10. earthbound: on solid ground 11. an aesthetics of blackness: strange and oppositional 12. inspired eccentricity 13. a place where the soul can rest 14. aesthetic inheritances: history worked by hand 15. piecing it all together 16. on being a kentucky writer 17. returning to the wound 18. healing talk: a conversation 19. take back the night remake the present 20. habits of the heart 21. a community of care ...

Autorentext

bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. She is the author of several other books, including Feminist Theory (Pluto Press 2000), Sisters of the Yam, Black Looks, Yearning, Talking Back, and Breaking Bread (with Cornel West). She is currently Professor of English at City College, City University of New York.

Inhalt

1. PREFACE: to know where I'm going

2. kentucky is my fate

3. mountains: consumed by suffering

4. touching the earth

5. reclamation and reconciliation

6. to be whole and holy

7. again segregation must end

8. representations of whiteness in the black imagination

9. drive through tobacco

10. earthbound: on solid ground

11. an aesthetics of blackness: strange and oppositional

12. inspired eccentricity

13. a place where the soul can rest

14. aesthetic inheritances: history worked by hand

15. piecing it all together

16. on being a kentucky writer

17. returning to the wound

18. healing talk: a conversation

19. take back the night remake the present

20. habits of the heart

21. a community of care