Meaning of hooksian | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952), American feminist author and social activist.

Examples

“The book is unquestionably fashionable: the hot pink cover, littered with bell hooksian typography, opens to reveal overdesigned pages full of the trendiest graphics […]”

“Ultimately, the play centers on signs, language, and back talk in a bell hooksian guise: how black women gain control over their environment by calling out and redressing the governing social constructs […]”

“The most brutal character, O'Dog, (and therefore in hooksian logic the character who has swallowed the white myth, hook, line and sinker) survives at the end of the film.”

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