Description |
140 pages ; 20 cm |
Note |
Subtitle from cover. |
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"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
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Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
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Essays.
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Essay. (DNLM)D020474
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Sexual behavior.
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Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Driftpile Cree Nation.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
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Canada.
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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Cree Indians -- Biography.
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Belcourt, Billy-Ray -- Childhood and youth.
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Gays. (OCoLC)fst00939255
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Gay men -- Canada -- Biography.
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LGBTQ indigenous people.
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Genre/Form |
essays. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026291
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Indians of North America -- Canada -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
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Gays and lesbians.
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Cree Indians. (OCoLC)fst00882643
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Sexual minorities -- Canada -- Biography.
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Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
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Genre/Form |
Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
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Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
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Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Biography.
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Sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01202158
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Racism.
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Cree gay men -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Autobiographies.
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Subject |
Racism against Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
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Added Author |
Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
NDN boyhood.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Futuromania.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Gay: 8 scenes.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Loneliness in the age of Grindr.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Fragments from a half-existence.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Alphabet of longing.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Robert.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Notes from an archive of injuries.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Please keep loving: reflections on unlivability.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Fatal naming rituals.
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Container of (work) : Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
To hang our grief up to dry.
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ISBN |
9781937512934 (paperback) |
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1937512932 (paperback) |
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9781937512941 (ebook) |