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Be not afraid of my body: a lyrical memoir
Belt Publishing
2024
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Abstract
"Darius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up navigating school, friendship, and his own family life in a context that often felt perilous. As we learn about his life in Tennessee, Texas, and Iowa, he details the obstacles to his most crucial desires: hiding his earliest attraction to boys in his neighborhood, doomed affairs, his struggles with alcohol addiction, and his eventual diagnosis with HIV. A mix of memoir, surreal reveries, and startling imagery, Be Not Afraid of My Body is a compelling testament to growing up Black and gay in America, and to the drive in all of us to collect the fragments of experience and transform them into a story that captures all the multitudes we contain" --
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Be not afraid of my body: a lyrical memoir
- Creators
- Darius Stewart (Author)
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Belt Publishing; Lakewood, OH
- ISBN
- 9781953368904; 1953368905
- Format
- 262 pages ; 18 cm
- Number of pages
- 262 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984700455202771
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