hooksian

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1. Of or relating to bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952), American feminist author and social activist.

   The most brutal character, O'Dog, (and therefore in hooksian logic the character who has swallowed the white myth, hook, line and sinker) survives at the end of the film.

   2005, Paul Gormley, The New-brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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   The book is unquestionably fashionable: the hot pink cover, littered with bell hooksian typography, opens to reveal overdesigned pages full of the trendiest graphics […]

   1999, New Art Examiner, volume 26, numbers 5-10, page 67

   Ultimately, the play centers on signs, language, and back talk in a bell hooksian guise: how black women gain control over their environment by calling out and redressing the governing social constructs […]

   2005, Carol Allen, Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000, page 110