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Book of Mutter

Book of Mutter

Book of Mutter
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Book of Mutter Hardback - - 1st Edition

by Kate Zambreno

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Semiotexte/Smart Art , Semiotextted edition (17 March 2017) NO-PA16APR2015-KAP. Hardback. New.
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  • Title Book of Mutter
  • Author Kate Zambreno
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Semiotexte/Smart Art
  • Publication date Semiotextted edition (17 Marc
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6375052006
  • ISBN 9781584351962 / 1584351969
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.6 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 14.22 x 2.29 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Biography
  • Dewey Decimal Code 818.6
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 01/30/2017, Page 0

About the author

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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