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Yearning

bell hooks

199032 pagesabout 30–45 minutes
1990
first published
  • 1990Between-the-Lines · 236 pages · ENGISBN 9780921284345
  • 1990Between-the-Lines · 236 pages · ENGISBN 9780921284352
  • 1994Turnaround · 248 pagesISBN 9781873262009
  • 2015Routledge · 236 pages · ENGISBN 9781138821743
  • 2017Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 40 pages · ENGISBN 9781484799239
  • 1990South End Press · 248 pages · ENGISBN 9780896083851
  • 1990South End Press · 236 pages · ENGISBN 9780896083868
  • 2004Jump At The Sun · 32 pages · ENGISBN 9780786808250

"For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination"--

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ThemesPower

Content notes

  • Racismmoderateunreviewed

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