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Author: PucksFool ✧✺🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: why does Vance keep "borrowing" ...
Date: 04/16/26 6:14 AM
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... titles of books by belle hooks?
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On Tuesday, Vance announced his new come-to-Jesus book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, will be out in June, detailing his journey (spoiler!) “back to faith” and his conversion to Catholicism. And the internet is already pointing out several blunders with the book cover, including the fact that it shares the same title as a book from feminist writer bell hooks. Coincidence? Maybe not, considering his first book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” also bore a similar title to one of hooks’ books.

In 2002, hooks published “Communion: The Female Search For Love,” which explores female companionship and sisterhood within a patriarchal society—so it’s only fitting that Vance would also co-opt this name for his latest cash grab. Is this mere parallel thinking? I’m choosing to believe that he is a huge fan, rather than the other, more likely option, which is that he is appropriating IP from a prominent black, feminist voice.

His first book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” was published in 2016 and subsequently brought this bobblehead into the political sphere. In the memoir, he recounted his upbringing in Appalachia, where we were cursed with knowledge of a certain story involving a couch…

The book and its subsequent film faced criticism for perpetuating negative stereotypes about Appalachian culture and blaming poverty on individual failure rather than systemic issues. Its title also echoes hooks’ 2012 poetry collection, “Appalachian Elegy,” which reflects on her own Appalachian upbringing.

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