by Lawrence Hill · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781770893221
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«Blood: The Stuff of Life» is the essay by Lawrence Hill published by House of Anansi Press in paperback, in English.
Lawrence Hill explores the scientific and social history of blood: a fluid biologically common to all people, but surrounded by cultural representations that have created divisions. He analyzes its presence in religions, literature and visual arts, and how ideas about purity have marked identity, race, class, citizenship and nation.
The book is part of the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures. It won the 2014 Hamilton Literary Award in the nonfiction category and was selected for The Globe 100 Books of 2013.
For readers of essays and social history interested in science, race, identity and culture.
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.
