![]() ![]() 'If you want to know who we are and where we've been, read Margo Jefferson' - Edmund White, author of A Previous Life Of the ladder as it climbs, and offers an indispensable, rollicking account of the enchantments, pleasures, costs, andĬomplexities of "imagin and interpret what had not imagined you' - Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts 'Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System is as electric as its title suggests. ![]() Of Kara Walker, white supremacy in the novels of Willa Cather, and more, this breathtakingly eloquent account is both aĬritique and a vindication of the constructed self. Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body couldīe - as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy reimagined in the artworks Margo Jefferson boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. Print Constructing a Nervous System - A Memoir ![]()
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