hooksian

English

Etymology

hooks +‎ -ian

Adjective

hooksian (comparative more hooksian, superlative most hooksian)

1. Of or relating to bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952), American feminist author and social activist.
   • 1999, New Art Examiner, volume 26, numbers 5-10, page 67:

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

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

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

     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.