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Constructing a Nervous System - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Constructing a Nervous System - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R564
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FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF
NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 '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
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