Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Bernard, Emily

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781101972410)

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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Bernard, Emily

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

$18.00
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Bernard, Emily

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book."

In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it.

"Black Is the Body is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages." --Elizabeth Gilbert

WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR

Author: Emily Bernard
ISBN-10: 1101972416
ISBN-13: 9781101972410
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2021 pg. 75
By Emily Bernard
By Emily Bernard
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EMILY BERNARD was born and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and received her PhD in American studies from Yale University. She has been the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the NEH, and a W. E. B. Du Bois Resident Fellowship at Harvard University. Her essays have been published in journals and anthologies, among them The American Scholar, Best American Essays, and Best African American Essays. She is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont.

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