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Sto caricando le informazioni... Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull ShortLit)di Maggie Nelson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. En 1969, Jane, la tante de l’autrice, qui n’était encore pas née, est assassinée. Plus de 30 ans plus tard, grâce aux progrès scientifiques, l’enquête reprend. Un ouvrage en deux parties publiées tête-bêche, l’un poétique basé sur le journal intime de la victime et des sources journalistiques, et l’autre documentaire, racontant le procès. Un texte qui questionne avec succès les questions de mémoire, de traumatisme familial, et s’interroge sur la culpabilité et le droit à l’oubli. A la fois fascinant, dérangeant et émouvant. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. Jane explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related "true crime" books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane's own diaries written when she was 13 and 21. Its eight sections cover Jane's childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson's girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane's sister) to retrace the path of Jane's final hours. Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, "page-turner" quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another's life and death. Part elegy, part memoir, detective story, part meditation on violence (and serial, sexual violence in particular), and part conversation between the living and the dead, Jane's powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, expands the notion of what poetry can do--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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