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Description

1. 180 pages : chiefly illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "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."--

Subject

1. Flowers, Ebony -- Comic books, strips, etc
2. Women, Black -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc
3. Women, Black -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc
4. Hairdressing of Black people -- Comic books, strips, etc
5. Hairdressing of Black people -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
6. Hair -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
7. Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
8. Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects
9. Hair -- Social aspects
10. Hairdressing of Black people
11. Women, Black -- Social life and customs

Genre/Form

1. Cartoons and comics.
2. Autobiographical comics.
3. Comics (Graphic works)

Contents

1. Hot comb -- Lady on the train -- Big Ma -- Fieldwork follies -- My lil sister Lena -- Spaniard -- Sisters & daughters -- Last Angolan Saturday.

Call number

1. Sc E 19-1077

Note

1. Place of publication from publisher's website.

Author

1. Flowers, Ebony, author, illustrator.

Title

1. Hot comb / Ebony Flowers.

Publisher

1. [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local subject

1. Black author.

ISBN

1. 9781770463486 (paperback)
2. 1770463488 (paperback)

Research call number

1. Sc E 19-1077