{"product_id":"that-hair","title":"That Hair","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat Hair written by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and translated by Eric M. B. Becker. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Best Translation of the Year at World Literature \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat Hair consists of universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The story of my curly hair,\" says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, \"intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.\" Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn layered and luscious prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola's independence. It's the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one's own country, and the impossibility of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"returning\" to a homeland one doesn't in fact know.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDjaimilia Pereira de Almeida was born in Luanda, Angola, and grew up in Lisbon. She has a PhD in literary theory from the University of Lisbon. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta.com, Words Without Borders, Granta Portugal, Observador, Somos Libros, Ler, serrote, and\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e 451.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eTranslator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEric M. B. Becker is a literary translator, critic, writer, and editor of Words without Borders. He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, PEN America, and the Louis Armstrong House Museum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecker has translated work by Mia Couto, Paulo Coelho, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, and Daniel Galera, among others. His work has been published in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Freeman's, Electric Literature, and many other publications. He is editor of several anthologies and magazine features devoted to the literature of Brazil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrint length 200 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItem weight 159g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions \u003c\/span\u003e12.85 × 1.07 × 19.84 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAUDADE TORONTO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48684066701535,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1251\/1761\/files\/7C633B8E-E38D-400A-8683-DC684791C78D.jpg?v=1774554123","url":"https:\/\/saudadetoronto.com\/products\/that-hair","provider":"SAUDADE TORONTO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}