Black Girl in Paris
Shay Youngblood
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Black Girl in Paris wends its way around the mythology or Paris as a city that has called out to African-American artists. Like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Josephine Baker before her, Youngblood’s heroine leaves her home, in the American South, nurturing a dream of finding artistic emancipation in the City of Light. She experiments freely, inhabiting different incarnations – artist’s model, poet’s helper, au pair, teacher, thief, and lover – to keep body and soul together, to stay afloat, heal the wounds of her broken heart, discover her sexual self, and, finally, to wrestle her dreams of becoming a writer into reality.
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Details
ISBN | 9781573228510 |
Genre | Black Interest; Fiction |
Copyright Date | 2000 |
Publication Date | 01-Jan-01 |
Publisher | Riverhead |
Format | Trade Paperback |
No. of Pages | 256 |
Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist |
Language | English |
Rating | Good |
Paper Type | Electronic Format Available |
Subject | African American Authors/ Fiction; African American Women Authors; African American Women Authors/ Fiction; Americans; Americans/ France/ Fiction |
BookID | 1239 |