EAN: 9781250827852

BLACK CHAMELEON - DEBORAH D E E P MOUTON GEBUNDEN

It's often said that Black women are magic  but what if they really are mythological? Growing
up as a Black girl in America  Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton yearned for stories she could connect
to-true ones  of course  but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world
and her place in it. Greek and Roman myths felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins  and
tales by Black authors were often rooted too far in the past  a continent away. Mouton's memoir
is a praise song and an elegy for Black womanhood. She tells her own story while remixing myths
and drawing on traditions from all over the world: mothers literally grow eyes in the backs of
their heads  children dust the childhood off their bodies  and women come to love the wildness
of the hair they once tried to tame. With a poet's gift for lyricism and poignancy  Mouton
reflects on her childhood as the daughter of a preacher and a harsh but loving mother  living
in the world as a Black woman whose love is all too often coupled with danger  and finally
learning to be a mother to another Black girl in America. Of the moment yet timeless  playful
but incendiary  Mouton has staked out new territory in the memoir form.

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