Brand: Riverhead Hardcover
Black Girl in Paris
Black Girl in Paris
- Author: Shay Youngblood
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Brand: Riverhead Hardcover
- Published: 2000-01-24
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Black Girl in Paris wends its way around the mythology of Paris as a legendary hothouse for African-American artists. Like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, and Billie Holiday, Youngblood's heroine leaves the American South nurturing a dream of finding artistic emancipation in the City of Light. She experiments freely, inhabiting different incarnations -- artist's model, poet's helper, au pair, teacher, thief, and lover -- to keep body and soul together, to heal the wounds of her broken family and broken heart, to discover her sexual self, and to wrestle her dreams of becoming a writer into reality.
Youngblood's natural lyricism, as effortless as an inspired improvisation, and her respect for the tradition she depicts create a natural tension between old and new, reverence and innovation, and mark this novel as a worthy successor to her much-praised debut.
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