Fuses cultural analysis with personal memoir for a unique literary experience
Explores race, class, family, and art through historical and contemporary lenses
Features insights into the female body and Black identity inspired by jazz and blues icons
Includes reinterpretations of classic literature and contemporary art
Shortlisted for major literary prizes, ensuring critical acclaim
Summarized by Shop
Margo Jefferson boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.
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
Author
Margo Jefferson
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Publication Date
2023
Format
Paperback, Hardcover
Genre
Biography, Literature, Arts, Society & Culture, History
