Hot comb / Ebony Flowers.

• Hot comb -- Lady on the train -- Big Ma -- Fieldwork follies -- My lil siser Lena -- Spaniard -- Sisters & daughters -- Last Angolan Saturday.

• "Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story "Hot Comb" is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming "too white" in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In "Virgin Hair" taunts of "tender-headed" sting as much as the perm itself. It's a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking."-- 

Ämnesord

Women, Black  -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc. (LCSH)

Women, Black  -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc. (LCSH)

Hairdressing of Blacks  -- Comic books, strips, etc. (LCSH)

Hairdressing of Blacks  -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc. (LCSH)

Hair  -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc. (LCSH)

Beauty, Personal  -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc. (LCSH)

Hairdressing of Blacks.  (fast)

Beauty, Personal  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Hair  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Women, Black  -- Social life and customs. (fast)

Genre

Serienoveller  (saogf)

Tecknade serier  (saogf)

Biografiska skildringar  (saogf)

Autobiographical comics.  (LCSH)

Graphic novels.  (LCSH)

Comic books, strips, etc.  (LCSH)

Autobiographical comics.  (fast)

Comic books, strips, etc.  (fast)

Comics (Graphic works)  (fast)

Comics (Graphic works)  (lcgft)

Autobiographical comics.  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Flowers, Ebony -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

He Skönlitteratur: engelska

Klassifikation

PN6727.F5869 (LCC)

HQ1163 (LAC)

305.48/896 (DDC)

cci1icc (lacc)

He.05 (kssb/8)