Constructing a Nervous System
A Memoir
By Margo Jefferson
Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize overall Book of the Year
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.
- ISBN:
- 9781783789009
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 208
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Granta Books
- Imprint:
- Granta Books
- Weight:
- 221 g