Book of Mutter

A fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.Writing is how I attempt to repair...
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SKU: 9781584351962
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Author: Kate Zambreno
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Book of Mutter by Zambreno, Kate

Book of Mutter

$47.43

Book of Mutter

$47.43
Author: Kate Zambreno
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.

Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childhood.
--from Book of Mutter

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 throes--and dead calm--of 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.



Author: Kate Zambreno
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: 03/17/2017
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781584351962
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/30/2017

About the Author
Zambreno, Kate: - Kate Zambreno is the author of the novels Green Girl and O Fallen Angel as well as the nonfiction Heroines and Book of Mutter (both published by Semiotexte(e)).

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