The next session of the bell hooks Book Club, an informal gathering to discuss Hopkinsville native Gloria Jean Watkins and her extensive work as the feminist writer bell hooks, will be at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at the Pennyroyal Area Museum, 217 E. Ninth St.
Anyone interested in hooks’ writing may attend. There is no charge.
The book selected for this meeting is “Salvation: Black People and Love.” A website about hooks states this book “examines everything from love in significant works of black literature to popular television shows to rap music, and how these portrayals of love have affected and represented the black community. She also discusses love and how it has affected black figures throughout history, from the days of slavery to the civil rights and Black Power movements up to today. This book is an incredibly influential and meaningful work of healing among races, using the truly universal experience of love to bring us together.”
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Copies of “Salvation” are available to buy in The Vault by Planters Bank gift shop at Pennyroyal Area Museum. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Hoptown Chronicle is one of the organizers of the bell hooks Book Club, along with the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, the Christian County Literacy Council and the bell hooks Legacy Group, which is a grassroots alliance that nurtures the meaning and impact of the writer’s stories, essays and poems in her hometown where she began life as Gloria Jean Watkins.
Read more about bell hooks here.
