Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Autor(a) de That Hair
About the Author
Obras por Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Associated Works
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1982
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Angola
- Local de nascimento
- Luanda, Angola
- Educação
- University of London (PhD)
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 101
- Popularidade
- #188,710
- Avaliação
- 3.1
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 16
- Línguas
- 3
There were moments I found beautiful and ideas I found profound, but the majority of my experience of reading this book was holding it with a furrowed brow and whispering "what are you doing?"
Some have described this as stream of consciousness, and it sort of is. A few places the narrator suggests this book is a collection of essays on her various hairstyles, but other than the one time she gets long braids with extensions, does she ever describe any hairstyle in particular? Much of the book is engaged with her mixed ancestry, and the different values (including about hair) in different branches of the family, but we are almost a third of the way through the book before she reveals which parts of the family are Portuguese and which Angolan, which white and which Black.
Loosely I would say this book is about the kaleidoscope of identity, and how we piece ourselves together with markers both outward and inward, bu hair and by memory, by accessories and by family history.
I expected something breezier and more personal. What I got was something much denser, and personal but in a very philosophical way.… (mais)