His favorite themes were feminism, racism, culture, politics, gender, love and spirituality.
Le Monde
The afrofeminal aurifer and criticism Bell Hooks, of his real name Gloria Jean Watkins, died Wednesday, December 15 at the age of 69 “of a long illness”, announced the Berea College, where she had been taught since 2004, In a statement .
She had written his first collection of poems, and there We WEPT, in 1978, under the pseudonym of “Bell Hooks” – a tribute on behalf of his great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, rewritten in tiny to put The focus on “the substance of books, not on whom I am,” she said. Very prolix, she then released about 40 books published in fifteen different languages. His favorite themes were feminism, racism, culture, politics, gender, love and spirituality.
An incalculable loss “
“We are honored that Gloria has received numerous awards and has experienced an international reputation for his work as a poet, autore, feminist, professor, cultural and activist criticism,” said his family in the press release.
“His loss is incalculable,” regretted on Twitter Roxane Gay, Author and American Editor of Success Books Bad Feminist (Denoël, 2018) and Hunger, a story of my body (Denoël, 2019).
“A very big lady went out. His writings were engines of so many literary, intellectual, personal transformations …” has declared the French anti-racist activist Rokhaya Diallo.
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