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The Women

By (author) Hilton Als

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â€˜Magical â€¦ truly original â€¦ Writing of people who limited themselves and died of it, Als has overcome limitsâ€™ The New York Times Book Review What are the forces that shape us? Hilton Alsâ€™s brilliant, now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America In The Women, Hilton Als exploresâ€”with breath taking originalityâ€”the role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary characters, including: his mother, a singular woman whose West Indian heritage and determination inspired her son to write; Malcolm X's mother, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's burgeoning misogyny and fear; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean, who deeply empathized with white gay men; and Owen Dodson, teacher and poet, who played an important role in the author's development as a gay man, and thinker. Combining memoir, cultural history, social theory and storytelling, The Women is a profoundly innovative work which has inspired a generation of writers. Here, Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to scrutiny, showing â€˜no mercy but every tendernessâ€™. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form of all its own.

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