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That Hair

That Hair

Pereira de Almeida, Djaimilia
Becker, Eric M. B.

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ISBN10: 1947793411
ISBN13: 9781947793415
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: Mar 17 2020
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
The story of my curly hair, says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics. Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered and luscious prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola's independence. It's the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one's own country, and the impossibility of returning to a homeland one doesn't in fact know.

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