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Black Chameleon - Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Black Chameleon

Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2024
Henry Holt & Company Inc (Verlag)
978-1-250-86156-6 (ISBN)
CHF 31,90 inkl. MwSt
It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?
Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton yearned for stories she could connect to - true ones, of course, but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and her place in it. Greek and Roman myths felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins, and tales by Black authors were often rooted too far in the past, a continent away.

Mouton’s memoir is a praise song and an elegy for Black womanhood. She tells her own story while remixing myths and drawing on traditions from all over the world: mothers literally grow eyes in the backs of their heads, children dust the childhood off their bodies, and women come to love the wildness of the hair they once tried to tame. With a poet’s gift for lyricism and poignancy, Mouton reflects on her childhood as the daughter of a preacher and a harsh but loving mother, living in the world as a Black woman whose love is all too often coupled with danger, and finally learning to be a mother to another Black girl in America.

Of the moment yet timeless, playful but incendiary, Mouton has staked out new territory in the memoir form.

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton is an internationally-known, writer, director, performer, critic and the first Black Poet Laureate of Houston, Texas. She is the author of the 2019 poetry collection Newsworthy, which was a finalist for the The Writer's League of Texas Book Award and Honorable Mention in the Summerlee Book Prize. Her poems have garnered her a Pushcart nomination and have been translated into multiple languages. She has been a contributing writer for Glamour, Texas Monthly, Muzzle, and ESPN's Andscape. Her work ranges from writing stage plays and librettos for operas such as Marian's Song to storytelling through film. She currently resides in Houston, Texas.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 125 x 201 mm
Gewicht 268 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-250-86156-X / 125086156X
ISBN-13 978-1-250-86156-6 / 9781250861566
Zustand Neuware
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