Pretty : a memoir
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Street Date
2405
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective-the tropes, the presumptions-Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. "I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body," Brookins writes. "Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female,' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean - to bea girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?" Informed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency-whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceivedas "other""--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
KB. (2024). Pretty: a memoir (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)KB. 2024. Pretty: A Memoir. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)KB. Pretty: A Memoir Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)KB. Pretty: A Memoir First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
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