That hair
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Becker, Eric M. B. translator.
Published
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2020.
Status
Central - Adult Fiction
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Published
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xv, 148 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English

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""The story of my curly hair," says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, "intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics." Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered, intricately constructed prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola's independence. It's the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one's own country, and the impossibility of "returning" to a homeland one doesn't in fact know"--,Provided by publisher.
Language
Translated from the original Portuguese into English.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Almeida, D. P. d., & Becker, E. M. B. (2020). That hair (First US edition.). Tin House Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Almeida, Djaimilia Pereira de, 1982- and Eric M. B. Becker. 2020. That Hair. Tin House Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Almeida, Djaimilia Pereira de, 1982- and Eric M. B. Becker. That Hair Tin House Books, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Almeida, Djaimilia Pereira de, and Eric M. B Becker. That Hair First US edition., Tin House Books, 2020.

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