Hot comb
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Published
Montréal, Québec : Drawn & Quarterly, [2019].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Status
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.4889 FLOWER 2019
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Published
Montréal, Québec : Drawn & Quarterly, [2019].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 3, 1 Points

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Chiefly illustrations.
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An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Awardwinning cartoonistHot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black womens lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular "Hot Comb" is about a young girls first perma doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming "too white" in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In "Virgin Hair," taunts of "tender-headed" sting as much as the perm itself. "My Lil Sister Lena" shows the stress of being the only black player on a white softball team. Lenas hair is the team curio, an object to be touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb, Ebony Flowers re-creates classic magazine ads idealizing womens need for hair relaxers and products. "Change your hair form to fit your life form" and "Kinks and Koils Forever" call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her Ph.D., and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. From her black-and-white drawings to her color construction-paper collages, Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Flowers, E. (2019). Hot comb (First edition.). Drawn & Quarterly.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Flowers, Ebony. 2019. Hot Comb. Drawn & Quarterly.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Flowers, Ebony. Hot Comb Drawn & Quarterly, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Flowers, Ebony. Hot Comb First edition., Drawn & Quarterly, 2019.

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