The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life - Couverture rigide

Kasdorf, Julia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801866626 ISBN 13 : 9780801866623

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This collection of essays by poet Julia Kasdorf "probe", in her own words, "the tangled threads of gender and cultural/religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority". Her ten essays, accompanied by 42 illustrations (from a nude by Titian, to family photos, to a famous image of Marilyn Monroe) and a dozen of her poems, focus on specific aspects of Mennonite life. Often drawing from historical episodes or family stories, Kasdorf pursues themes of martyrdom, landscape, silence, the body, memory, community, and the struggle to articulate experience with a voice that is both authentic to the self and a conversation with her traditional Mennonite and Amish-Mennonite background.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julia Kasdorf is the author of two collections of poetry, Sleeping Preacher (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize) and Eve's Striptease, and an associate professor in the Department of English at the Pennsylvania State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801866626
• ISBN 13: 9780801866623
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible