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Black is the body, stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine, Emily Bernard

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Black is the body, stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine, Emily Bernard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black is the body

Responsibility statement

Emily Bernard

Sub title

stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine

Summary

"'I am black--and brown, too,' writes Emily Bernard. 'Brown is the body I was born into. Black is the body of the stories I tell.' And the storytelling begins when Bernard, then a graduate student at Yale, was randomly attacked by a stranger with a knife. She explores how that bizarre act of violence set her free and unleashed the storyteller in her. Bernard writes how each of the essays goes beyond a narrative of black innocence and white guilt, how each is anchored in a mystery, and how each sets out to discover a new way of telling the truth as the author has lived it"--Back cover

Table Of Contents

Beginnings -- Scar tissue -- Teaching the N-word -- Interstates -- Mother on Earth -- Black is the body -- Skin -- White friend -- Her glory -- Motherland -- Going home -- People like me -- Epilogue: my turn

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