For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination.
- ISBN10 1322192928
- ISBN13 9781322192925
- Publish Date 1 January 2014 (first published 25 December 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor and Francis
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 251
- Language English