White Girls

White Girls
Author Hilton Als
Country United States
Language English
Published 2013

White Girls is a 2013 book by Hilton Als. Combining elements of memoir, criticism, fiction and nonfiction, the book's essays create a portrait of "white girls", a category in which Als includes everyone from Truman Capote to Flannery O’Connor and even Malcolm X.[1] The book explores themes of identity, otherness, commonality, and interpersonal relationships as a kind of "twinship".[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Hilton Als blurs the lines in 'White Girls'". Los Angeles Times. 2013.
  2. ↑ "Hilton Als' White Girls is ingenious provocation". The A.V. Club. 2013.


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