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A history of my brief body  Cover Image Book Book

A history of my brief body / essays, Billy-Ray Belcourt.

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  • ISBN: 1937512932
  • ISBN: 9781937512934
  • Physical Description: 140 pages ; 19 cm
  • Publisher: Columbus, OH : Two Dollar Radio, 2020.

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Summary, etc.:
"Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray's writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us." --Amazon.com.
Subject: Gays.
Racism.
Sex.
Canada.
Genre: Essays.
Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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Main 814.6 B41h (Text) 31307024374870 Non Fiction Available -

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