Yearning, Bell Hooks
Yearning, Bell Hooks
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Yearning
Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, 2nd Edition

Author: Bell Hooks

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/28/2023


Synopsis

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.

About Bell Hooks

A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks is best known for classic books including Feminist Theory, Bone Black, All About Love, Rock My Soul, Belonging, We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real. She is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cam on September 10, 2013

I just wanna sit down with bell hooks and ask her what she thinks about stuff......more

Goodreads review by Mai on December 12, 2023

I wonder why this collection of essays isn't more well-known. Reading bell hooks before 1998-99 is such a treat. The language does sound more objective and the arguments more nuanced than her later works, say "All about love" or "The will to change". The collection suffers a bit from miscellaneousne......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on January 06, 2025

perché non ho letto prima questo libro?!?!? grazie bell hooks per costituire un precedente imprescindibile in quanto ad “autorità dell’esperienza” e rendere alcuni testi femministi di tutto il mondo un po’ meno m3rd0s1......more

Goodreads review by Laura on March 30, 2021

Elogio del margine è una raccolta di dieci saggi scritti da bell hooks (pseudonimo di Gloria Jean Watkins) che trattano i temi più disparati, ma che hanno in comune l'analisi critica dell'autrice rispetto a questioni come il razzismo e/o il sessismo. Quello che mi ha colpita molto di questo saggio,......more

Goodreads review by Annapurna on February 28, 2012

Extremely intelligent writing. Particularly interested in the idea of reclaiming the home, as an act of resistance. An innovative look at the issue of race.......more