Book Of Mutter

by Kate Zambreno
language: english
Publisher: AUTONOMEDIA, March of 2017 ‧
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"Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throesand dead calmof grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form on Bourgeois's "Cells" sculptures--at once channeling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, Book of Mutter is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem/postmodern theater." -- publisher's website.

Book Of Mutter

by Kate Zambreno

Property Description
ISBN: 9781584351962
Publisher: AUTONOMEDIA
Release Date: March of 2017
Language: English
Dimensions: 136 x 203 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Format: Book
Collection: Semiotext(E)
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Memories and Testimonies
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781584351962

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