Constructing a nervous system : a memoir

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Label

Constructing a nervous system : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Margo Jefferson

Creator

• trueJefferson, Margo, 1947-

Author

• trueJefferson, Margo, 1947-

Subject

• trueWomen critics
• trueAfrican American women
• African American women -- Biography
• trueAfrican Americans
• trueAfrican Americans -- Identity
• African Americans -- Race identity
• African Americans -- Social life and customs
• Anecdotes
• Autobiographies
• trueIdentity
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• trueInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• trueIntellectual life
• trueIntellectual life -- African Americans
• Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
• trueUnited States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes
• United States -- Race relations | History -- Anecdotes
• trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes

Genre

• Autobiographies
• trueBiography
• trueAnecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

The author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. The words of multiple others (writers, singers, film characters, friends, family) act as prompts and as dialogue. The fragments of this brilliant book, while not neglecting family, race, and class, are informed by a kind of aesthetic drive: longing, ecstasy, or even acute ambivalence

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueReflective

Writing style

• trueCandid
• trueEngaging

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

305.896/073

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography