Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Jefferson Margo
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Jefferson Margo Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral,…
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Jefferson Margo
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir.Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). In this nervous system:The sounds of a black spinning disc of a 1950's jazz LP as intimate and instructive as a parent's voice.The muscles and movements of a ballerina, spliced with those of an Olympic runner: template for what a female body could be.Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy finds her way into the art of Kara Walker and The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that trouble her as well as those that thrill and restore.
Constructing a Nervous System
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