Becoming bell hooks
Becoming bell hooks

A story about the self-empowerment of a Black girl who became a feminist

Author(s): Aneta Ostaszewska
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: autobiography; bell hooks; subjectivity; woman; feminism
Summary/Abstract: This book is the story of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), a Black woman from a small town in Kentucky who became a bell hooks – a feminist icon, one of the most significant and courageous voices of the contemporary debates on racial discrimination, feminism, and women’s and minority rights. The author focuses on the autobiographical dimension of bell hooks’ essays – it is a story about “biographical work” of a woman who creates herself in the course of writing her autobiography.

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