OL8253986M
Yearning
bell hooks
- Publisher
- South End Press
- Published
- November 1990
- ISBN-13
- 9780896083868
- ISBN-10
- 0896083861
- Work ID
- OL31122W
Description
"For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination"--
Subjects
African AmericansAfro-AmericansIntellectual lifeRace identityAfrican American womenLoveSocial conditionsFeminismRaceGender identityPolitical participationCultural policyAfrican americans, social conditionsSex rolePolitics and cultureRace relationsIdentity politicsAfrican americans, intellectual lifeAfrican americans, race identityPolitical science, united statesUnited states, race relationsUnited states, social conditions, 1980-SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist TheorySOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies