Becoming bell hooks

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• Aneta Ostaszewska Becoming bell hooks. A story about the self-empowerment of a Black girl who became a feminist
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Introduction: why bell hooks?
  • A woman writer as a causal subject
  • Who is bell hooks?
  • Structure of the book
  • Final remarks
• 1. Autobiography as a research field
  • 1.1. An attempt at a definition
  • 1.2. Extra-textual understanding of autobiography
  • 1.3. Womens autobiographical writing
  • 1.4. Features of womens autobiographical writing
• 2. Biographical work as a tool for self-empowerment
  • 2.1. Autobiography as a practice of living
  • 2.2. Biographicity as an emancipatory and developmental potential
  • 2.3. Bildung: self-improvement and biography
  • 2.4. Biographical work in the context of self-empowerment
• 3. The research approach
  • 3.1. Sources, research questions and stages of the study
  • 3.2. Close reading as a methodological postulate
  • 3.3. Feminist methodology as a framework for autobiographical research
  • 3.4. The biographical method
  • 3.5. Analytical strategies
• 4. Reconstruction of bell hookss biography
  • 4.1. Historical and social context
  • 4.2. bell hooks, or Gloria Jean Watkins
  • 4.3. Biomythography in autobiography: an introduction to analysis
• 5. bell hooks as a narrator, biographical subject and observer
  • 5.1. The narrator: to speak with her own voice
  • 5.2. The biographical subject: a Black woman from Kentucky
• 6. Reception and criticism: bell hookss self-empowerment
  • 6.1. Writing autobiography as writing oneself
  • 6.2. I was mapping a different destiny: the process of becoming
  • 6.3. Levels of autobiographical expression
  • 6.4. Types of reality
  • 6.5. Stages of biographical work
• Afterword: to read bell hooks
• Bibliography
• Index of names

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