Bone Black Chapter 8

Bone Black by bell hooks was originally published on October 15, 1996.

On December 15, 2021, the literary world lost author, professor, feminist, and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins who used the pen name bell hooks. Her pen name honored her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. The author used lowercase letters for her name to give deference to her great-grandmother. 

 

Prior to reading Bone Black: Memories of Childhood, I'd only read portions of hooks' writings, some for college assignments and some on my own. After her death, I read her childhood memoir. In it, she recalls intimate details of experiences as a young girl with indifferent parents and siblings, experiences with neighboring adults, school experiences, and exploration of self and her surrounding world. Each chapter is only three pages long and tells a concise story of the described experiences.

In chapter 8, hooks shared her relationship with dolls. I'm sharing it here. Stretch or click to enlarge the photos. 

During bell's described childhood experiences in Bone Black, she did a lot of waiting, mostly for acceptance and love from her immediate family. 

bell hooks
September 25, 1952-December 15, 2021; she was 69.

"The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.”

—bell hooks

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