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03827aam a2200625 i 4500 001 4EA9AC16BC8111ECBE6B8C6734ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220415010009 008 210710t20222022nyua e b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2021029571 020 $a 152474817X 020 $a 9781524748173 035 $a (OCoLC)1252763617 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TOH $d OCLCO $d LJW $d RNL $d UAP $d YU6 $d IUK $d CGB $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 082 00 $a 305.896/073 $2 23 100 1 $a Jefferson, Margo, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Constructing a nervous system : $b a memoir / $c Margo Jefferson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2022] 300 $a 197 pages : $b illustration ; $c 20 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195). 520 $a "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that trouble her as well as those that thrill and restore. In this nervous system: The sounds of a black spinning disc of a 1950's jazz LP as intimate and instructive as a parent's voice. The muscles and movements of a ballerina, spliced with those of an Olympic runner: template for what a female body could be. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy finds her way into the art of Kara Walker and the songs of CeÌcile McLorin Salvant. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner become alter egos. W.E.B. DuBois and George Eliot meet illicitly, as he appropriates lines from her story "The Hidden Veil" to write his famous "behind the veil" passages in The Souls of Black Folk. The words of multiple others (writers, singers, film characters, friends, family) act as prompts and as dialogue. The fragments of this brilliant book, while not neglecting family, race, and class, are informed by a kind of aesthetic drive: longing, ecstasy, or even acute ambivalence. Constructing a nervous system is Jefferson's relentlessly galvanizing mis en scene for unconventional storytelling as well as a platform for unexpected dramatis personae"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Jefferson, Margo, $d 1947- 650 0 $a African American women $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women critics $v Biography. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Race identity. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social life and customs. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $v Anecdotes. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $v Anecdotes. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 lcgft 941 $a 18 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015958.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104021454.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032758.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015021.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230616010121.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230503011752.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014507.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20230131011814.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20221202021208.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024918.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220706023122.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220702011002.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013000.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220615010142.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220510011742.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220507010817.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220507010322.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220415010028.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4EA9AC16BC8111ECBE6B8C6734ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search