Recollections
of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
by Rebecca Solnit
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"At
the same time that [Solnit] describes her forays into her past, she invites us
to connect pieces of her story to our own, as a measure of how far we've come
and how far we have left to go." —Jenny Odell, The New York Times Book
Review
An electric portrait of the
artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society
that prefers women to be silent
In Recollections of My
Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a
feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the
street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas.
She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great
teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the
home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated
her as a person and as a writer--books themselves; the gay community that
presented a new model of what else gender, family, and joy could mean; and her
eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the
American West.
Beyond being a memoir, Solnit's
book is also a passionate argument: that women are not just impacted by
personal experience, but by membership in a society where violence against
women pervades. Looking back, she describes how she came to recognize that her
own experiences of harassment and menace were inseparable from the systemic
problem of who has a voice, or rather who is heard and respected and who is
silenced--and how she was galvanized to use her own voice for change.
Product
details
File Size :
1894 KB
Print Length : 252 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN : 0593083334
Publisher :
Viking (March 10, 2020)
Publication Date : March 10, 2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
LLC
Language : English
ASIN : B07WKJTFMC
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