Constructing A Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
A Memoir
An inventive memoir-critique that assembles a self from family lore, illness, and Black middle-class codes of respectability alongside a pantheon of cultural idols from jazz to pop. In collage-like chapters, it interrogates taste, desire, shame, and ambition, revising inherited scripts about race, gender, and class while reckoning with a mother’s lasting imprint. The result is an intimate exploration of how art and performance both fortify and unsettle identity.
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- Published
- 2022
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 208-224
- Original Language
- English
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