The women
Als, Hilton2025
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What are the forces that shape us? In 'The Women', Hilton Als explores the role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary characters, including: his mother, a singular woman whose West Indian heritage and determination inspired her son to write; Malcolm X's mother, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's burgeoning misogyny and fear; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean, who deeply empathized with white gay men; and Owen Dodson, teacher and poet, who played an important role in the author's development as a gay man, and thinker.
Main title:
The women / Hilton Als.
Author:
Als, Hilton, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2025.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780141999746 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
8573482