A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing: Essays
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Ingenious Out Of Necessity, these essays erupt from the exile of the author by her mother. In them, Kimberly Grey harnesses her formidable intellectual and creative resources in an effort to create coherence out of absolute dislocation. To do so, she calls on-beseeches-dozens of brilliant thinkers and artists (among them Etel Adnan, Roland Barthes, John Cage, Anna Freud, Mina Loy, Elaine Scarry, Gertrude Stein, and Simone Weil) to help her survive, if not fully comprehend, her banishment. By thinking her pain rather than feeling it, she becomes an expert witness to her own trauma, pondering motherhood even as her daughterhood has been rescinded. Synthesizing creative writing and theory, A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing is a powerful testament to the essay's potential to help us persevere.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0892555750
ISBN13:9780892555758
Release Date:December 2023
Publisher:Persea Books
Length:136 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"
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