4 records matched your query
03425aam a2200445 i 4500 001 3DD8A3BE072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 201104s2021 qeaa b 000 0aeng 020 $a 0702263354 020 $a 9780702263354 035 $a (OCoLC)1240367089 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d GZM $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d CLU $d JNA $d SILO 042 $a anuc 043 $a n-cn--- 050 4 $a PR9199.4.B453 $b H57 2021 082 04 $a 814/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Belcourt, Billy-Ray, $e author. 245 12 $a A history of my brief body / $c Billy-Ray Belcourt. 246 14 $a History of my brief body : $b a memoir 264 1 $a St Lucia, Queenland, Australia : $b University of Queensland Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 173 pages : $b illustration ; $c 20 cm 520 $a Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. Billy-Ray Belcourt's collection of personal essays opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile Cree Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexual exploration and intimacy, and 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Preface: A letter to NoÌhkom -- Introduction: A short theoretical note -- An NDN boyhood -- A history of my brief body -- Futuromania -- Gay: 8 scenes -- Loneliness in the age of Grindr -- Fragments from a half-existence -- An alphabet of longing -- Robert -- Notes from an archive of injuries -- Please keep loving : reflections on unlivability -- Fatal naming rituals -- To hang our grief up to dry. 600 10 $a Belcourt, Billy-Ray. 600 10 $a Belcourt, Billy-Ray $x Childhood and youth. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples $z Canada $v Biography. 650 0 $a Sexual minorities $z Canada $v Biography. 650 7 $a Indigenous peoples. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00970213 650 7 $a Sexual minorities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01202158 651 7 $a Canada. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204310 655 2 $a Biography $0 (DNLM)D019215 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Belcourt, Billy-Ray. $t History of my brief body. $d St Lucia, QLD : University of Queensland Press, 2021 $z 9780702265181 $w (OCoLC)1246179972 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3DD8A3BE072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search