A history of my brief body / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Canada--Biography.

Indigenous peoples.

Sexual minorities--Canada--Biography.

Sexual minorities.

Belcourt, Billy-Ray.

Belcourt, Billy-Ray--Childhood and youth.

Canada.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Biographies.

LGBTQ+ biographies

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Australian edition.

Other Title:

History of my brief body : a memoir

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, QLD : University of Queensland Press, [2021]

Summary:

Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt's collection of personal essays opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile Cree Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexual exploration and intimacy, and 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.

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.

Notes:

Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Belcourt, Billy-Ray. History of my brief body.

ISBN:

9780702263354

0702263354

OCLC:

1240367089

Publisher Number:

99988112425