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Rebecca Solnit Recollections of My Nonexistence (Paperback). Title: Recollections of My Nonexistence. Author: Rebecca Solnit. Format: Paperback. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Item Height: 211mm. Publisher: Penguin USA. Language: English. ISBN: 9780593083345. Further DetailsTitle: Recollections of My Nonexistence Condition: New Subtitle: A Memoir ISBN-10: 0593083342 Format: Paperback Author: Rebecca Solnit EAN: 9780593083345 ISBN: 9780593083345 Publisher: Penguin USA Release Date: 03/09/2021 Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Biography Description: Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn 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, from the author of Orwell's Roses 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 211mm Item Length: 137mm Item Width: 17mm Item Weight: 312g Release Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
