Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth Mouton Deborah D. E. E. P.
Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth Mouton Deborah D. E. E. P. It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?Growing up as a Black girl in America,…
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Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth Mouton Deborah D. E. E. P.
It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah D.E.E.P. Greek and Roman myths felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins, and tales by Black authors were often rooted too far in the past, a continent away.Mouton's memoir is a praise song and an elegy for Black womanhood. Mouton yearned for stories she could connect to--true ones, of course, but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and her place in it.
With a poet's gift for lyricism and poignancy, Mouton reflects on her childhood as the She tells her own story while remixing myths and drawing on traditions from all over the world: mothers literally grow eyes in the backs of their heads, children dust the childhood off their bodies, and women come to love the wildness of the hair they once tried to tame.