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Sto caricando le informazioni... Rust Belt Femmedi Raechel Anne Jolie
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Such a good and short memoir!! Jolie is an expert at creating mood and atmosphere in a way I hope to learn from when I eventually reread this through a more writery lense. She also has a line in this book that I will never forget and will use for the rest of my life to explain why I love creative non-fiction so much: "I think more of us who are drawn to memoir are burdened with an incurable case of nostalgia." ( ) I really really enjoyed this; Jolie is such a careful, attentive writer with a clear passion for Cleveland and the surrounding area and a rigorous understanding of how the world she moved through as a child was constructed. Her writings about femmehood I think are some of the most clearly articulated I've read in a long time, and a much-needed antidote to the muddying of the term by a firm grounding in her working class upbringing. I kind of wanted more--she talks about embodying this as she goes through academia, and I think this is a tension point that she doesn't pick at any more, or what that means and I would personally find that super interesting (and because we don't yet have much if any good writing on that straddling and it's becoming more and more relevant I think, but I understand the structure here and the Rust Belt part of it fades whens he moves away so it's not necessarily relevant to the confines of the book. Definitely recommend it though! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and took their trauma out on one another. Raechel escaped to the progressive suburbs of Cleveland Heights, leaving the tractors and ranch-style homes home in favor of a city with vintage marquees, music clubs, and people who talked about big ideas. It was the early 90s, full of Nirvana songs and chokers, flannel shirts and cut-off jean shorts, lesbian witches and local coffee shops. Rust Belt Femme is the story of how these twin foundations--rural Ohio poverty and alternative 90s culture--made Raechel into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest."-- Provided by publisher. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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