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Author Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author.

Title A history of my brief body : [essays] / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Publication Info. Columbus, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio, [2020]
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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B BELCOURT BILLY-RAY B    Check Shelf
Description 140 pages ; 20 cm
Note Subtitle from cover.
"An earlier version of 'Fatal Naming Rituals' was published in Hazlitt in 2018. 'Notes from an Archive of Injuries' was published in the Winter 2020 issue of Prairie Fire."--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140).
Contents Preface : a letter to Nôhkom -- Introduction : A short theoretical note -- An NDN boyhood -- A history of my brief body -- Futuromania -- Gay: 8 scenes -- Loneliness in the age of Grindr -- Fragments from a half-existence -- An alphabet of longing -- Robert -- Notes from an archive of injuries -- Please keep loving : reflections on unlivability -- Fatal naming rituals -- To hang our grief up to dry.
Summary "Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray's writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us."--Amazon.
Subject Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Essays.
Genre/Form Essay. (DNLM)D020474
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Subject Sexual behavior.
Genre/Form Essays.
Subject Driftpile Cree Nation.
Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
Canada.
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
Cree Indians -- Biography.
Belcourt, Billy-Ray -- Childhood and youth.
Gays. (OCoLC)fst00939255
Gay men -- Canada -- Biography.
LGBTQ indigenous people.
Genre/Form essays. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026291
Subject Indians of North America -- Canada -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Subject Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Gays and lesbians.
Cree Indians. (OCoLC)fst00882643
Sexual minorities -- Canada -- Biography.
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Genre/Form Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
Subject Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Biography.
Subject Sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01202158
Racism.
Cree gay men -- Biography.
Genre/Form Essays.
Autobiographies.
Subject Racism against Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
Added Author Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. NDN boyhood.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Futuromania.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Gay: 8 scenes.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Loneliness in the age of Grindr.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Fragments from a half-existence.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Robert.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Notes from an archive of injuries.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Please keep loving: reflections on unlivability.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. Fatal naming rituals.
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray. To hang our grief up to dry.
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