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Mothers, fathers, and others : essays / Siri Hustvedt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: x, 285 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982176396
  • 1982176393
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Tillie
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. My mother's ocean and how it became mine
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Stones and ashes
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Walk with my mother
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. States of mind
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Mentor ghosts
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Open borders
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Notes from New York
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Reading during the plague
  • Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. When I met you I saw myself as another
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Tillie -- My mother's ocean and how it became mine -- Stones and ashes -- A walk with my mother -- States of mind -- Mentor ghosts -- Open borders -- Notes from New York -- Reading during the plague -- When I met you I saw myself as another -- The future of literature -- Translation stories -- The sinbad variations -- He dropped his pen -- The enigma of reading -- Living thing -- Visiting St. Francis -- Both-and -- What does a man want? -- Scapegoat.
Summary: In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 814.54 H972 Available 33111010774343
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this "profound" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted--between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork--which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.

Described as "a 21st-century Virginia Woolf" in the Literary Review (UK), Man Booker longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Lousie Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. Mothers, Fathers, and Others is a polymath's journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art.

This moving, fierce, and often funny book is finally about the fact that being alive means being in states of constant, dynamic exchange with what is around us, and that the impulse to draw hard and fast conceptual borders where none exist carries serious theoretical and political dangers.

In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

Tillie -- My mother's ocean and how it became mine -- Stones and ashes -- A walk with my mother -- States of mind -- Mentor ghosts -- Open borders -- Notes from New York -- Reading during the plague -- When I met you I saw myself as another -- The future of literature -- Translation stories -- The sinbad variations -- He dropped his pen -- The enigma of reading -- Living thing -- Visiting St. Francis -- Both-and -- What does a man want? -- Scapegoat.

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