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A 7 page paper which discusses various aspects of the work on postmodern blackness, written by Bell Hooks. The work of Bell Hooks, especially in relationship to postmodern blackness which involves aesthetics and critical thought as attainable, if not possessed, by the black population, is considered incredibly controversial as well as contradictory. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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women. But, although much of her work addresses the female gender, she also addresses the conditions of African Americans in general, especially in regards to modern times. In one of
her addresses, Postmodern Blackness, she discusses many of the various conditions that African Americans face today, as well as conditions they have faced in the recent past which have led
to realities in existence today. Although much of what she has to say is relatively accurate, there are many instances within this work that illustrate a great deal of contradiction.
Bell Hooks is a woman who, as mentioned, is an incredibly popular writer. She is one of very few African American women who, as writers, "realize how their color
conditions acceptance or rejection of their work by literary critics" (Nichols 16). "Her real name is Gloria Watkins, but she has taken the name of her great-grandmother in recognition of
a female legacy. She explains that the lowercase lettering reflects a wariness about ego and fame; she wants to emphasize the works rather than the authors name. Born in Hopkinsville,
Ky., she celebrates her rural working-class background. But she also attended Stanford and received her doctorate from the University of California at Santa Cruz" (Reid 24). With such an understanding
of Hooks past, we can better understand, perhaps, some of her arguments, as well as her confusion and contradictory nature. This is likely the case due to the fact that
she is, firstly, a woman, secondly, of lower class upbringing, and thirdly, an educated individual. Hooks, in Postmodern Blackness, begins her address by stating that "Postmodernist discourses are often exclusionary
even when, having been accused of lacking concrete relevance, they call attention to and appropriate the experience of difference and otherness in order to provide themselves with oppositional political meaning,
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