Ebook {Epub PDF} White Girls by Hilton Als

In White Girls, critic and essayist Hilton Als has assembled a remarkable collection of prose. Traversing a range of topics and figures, his analyses of gender, race, sexuality, and mass culture are alive, teeming with insight. “Triste Tropiques” is an extraordinary essay that mobilizes key structuralist principles to explore the nature of /5().  · Als’s careful read on Capote doubles as a mind-popping take on white girls generally. He exposes the funny and calculated fissures that can open between the white-girl self we’re shown and the white-girl self we cannot know, the slipperiness of white girls as shackled objects of desire and matrices of power.4/4(13). White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them—an expansive but precise category/5.

Review: 'White Girls' by Hilton Als. By By Michael Robbins. at PM. Probably the least important thing worth saying about Hilton Als' "White Girls" is that it's the best book of. White Girls is a book by Hilton Als.. Overview. Combining elements of memoir, criticism, fiction and non-fiction, the book's essays create a portrait of "white girls", a category in which Als includes everyone from Truman Capote to Flannery O'Connor and even Malcolm X. The book explores themes of identity, otherness, commonality, and interpersonal relationships as a kind of "twinship". White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them—an expansive but precise category.

White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. implores a subject in "White Girls," Hilton Als' alternately exhilarating and exasperating potpourri of self-reflexive essays on art, gender identity, race and the everlasting quandary of being. The book is about white girls. I am undoubtedly a white girl, but according to Als’ definition, so are Michael Jackson and Truman Capote. The white girls he writes about are sometimes white and sometimes girls but always “white girls.” Catch the drift? Being a white girl isn’t about being born white in a woman’s body.