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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Hardcover - 1999

by Emily Bernard

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

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  • Title Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
  • Author Emily Bernard
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition 1s
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
  • Date 1999
  • ISBN 9780451493026 / 0451493028
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (19.81 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects African American women, United States - Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018022594
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

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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