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100 1 $aAls, Hilton.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95039497
245 14 $aThe women /$cHilton Als.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus, Giroux,$c1996.
300 $a145 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aDaring, fiercely original, and brilliant, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects.
520 8 $aAls begins with his mother, a self-described "Negress," who would not be defined by the limitations of race and gender. He goes on to ask who the mother of Malcolm X was, and shows how her mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's misogyny and racism. He describes how the brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean rarely identified with other blacks or women, but deeply empathized with white gay men.
520 8 $aFinally, he portrays the late Owen Dodson, a poet and dramatist who was female-identified and who played an important role in the author's own social and intellectual formation. Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to his inimitable scrutiny with relentless humor and sympathy. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form all its own.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113942
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113456
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91004344
650 0 $aAfrican American women$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117552
650 0 $aGender identity$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117819
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001973
650 0 $aAuthorship$xSex differences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117583
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064151
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