“The story of my curly hair,” says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, “intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.” Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila’s indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered, intricately constructed prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola’s independence. It’s the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one’s own country, and the impossibility of “returning” to a homeland one doesn’t in fact know.
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Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida nasceu em Angola, Luanda, em 1982. Cresceu nos arredores de Lisboa, formou-se em estudos portugueses pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa e fez doutorado em teoria da literatura na Universidade de Lisboa. Em 2013, foi uma das vencedoras do Prêmio de Ensaísmo Serrote (Instituto Moreira Salles). Publicou ensaios em revistas e jornais em Portugal, nos EUA e no Brasil. Esse cabelo, vencedor do Prêmio Novos – Literatura 2016, é seu primeiro livro. No início de 2016, foi uma das finalistas da Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
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