Becoming bell hooks: A Story about the Self-Empowerment of a Black Girl Who Became a Feminist. By Aneta Ostaszewska. U of Warsaw P, 2023, 161 pp.

Lena Leßlhumer

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025): Versions of America: Speculative Pasts, Presents, Futures

Becoming bell hooks: A Story about the Self-Empowerment of a Black Girl Who Became a Feminist. By Aneta Ostaszewska. U of Warsaw P, 2023, 161 pp.

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Submitted: January 9, 2025
Published: 2025-06-18

Abstract

Lena E. Leßlhumer reviews Aneta Ostaszewska's Becoming bell hooks: A Story about the Self-Empowerment of a Black Girl Who Became a Feminist (U of Iowa P, 2023).

References

hooks, bell. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. The Women's P Ltd., 1997.

Keywords

life writing
Black Resistance
feminism
book review

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Leßlhumer, Lena. “Becoming Bell Hooks: A Story about the Self-Empowerment of a Black Girl Who Became a Feminist. By Aneta Ostaszewska. U of Warsaw P, 2023, 161 Pp”. JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2025, pp. 222–25, https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v6i2.229.

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