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Hot comb
- Title
- Hot comb / Ebony Flowers.
- Author
- Flowers, Ebony
- Publication
- [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 180 pages : chiefly illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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."--
- Subjects
- Women, Black > Social life and customs
- Hairdressing of Black people > Social aspects > Comic books, strips, etc
- Hairdressing of Black people > Comic books, strips, etc
- Flowers, Ebony > Comic books, strips, etc
- Autobiographical comics
- Women, Black > Social life and customs > Comic books, strips, etc
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Cartoons and comics
- Hair > Social aspects > Comic books, strips, etc
- Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > Comic books, strips, etc
- Black author
- Women, Black > Race identity > Comic books, strips, etc
- Genre/Form
- Cartoons and comics.
- Autobiographical comics.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Note
- Place of publication from publisher's website.
- Contents
- Hot comb -- Lady on the train -- Big Ma -- Fieldwork follies -- My lil sister Lena -- Spaniard -- Sisters & daughters -- Last Angolan Saturday.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1077
- ISBN
- 9781770463486
- 1770463488
- OCLC
- 1053581791
- Author
- Flowers, Ebony, author, illustrator.
- Title
- Hot comb / Ebony Flowers.
- Publisher
- [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1077