Binding: Hardcover
Description: BEST Reads OF 2023: New York Times Book Review US a Today The Skimm Bookpage St Louis Post - Dispatch / BEST Holiday Gifts 2023: Publishers Weekly / MOST Anticipated Reads OF 2023: ELLE The Millions Essence Aisha Harris is one of our smartest most entertaining modern cultural critics () which might as well be parlance for Read me immediately. ELLE Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor - sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now she turns her talents inward mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us and our ability to shape them right back. In the opening essay an interaction with Chance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name. Elsewhere Aisha traces the evolution of the Black Friend trope from its Twainian origins through to the heyday of the Spice Girls teen comedies like Clueless and sitcoms of the New Girl variety. And she examines the overlap of taste and identity in this era rejecting the patriarchal ethos that you are what you like. Whatever the subject sitting down with her book feels like hanging out with your smart hilarious pop culture obsessed friend and it's a delight.
Title: Wannabe Reckonings With The Pop Culture That Shapes Me
Author(s): Harris Aisha
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063249943
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/13/2023