02008nam a22002297a 4500 20231210004848.0 231210b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781584351962 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. : ZBD0272 : 03/12/2023 818.6 ZAM Zambreno, Kate. Book of mutter / Kate Zambreno. , South Pasadena, CA : ,Semiotext(e) , 2017 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. "Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes, and dead calm, of grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form on Bourgeois's "Cells" sculptures--at once channeling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, Book of Mutter is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem/postmodern theater." Biography Mothers and daughters Reflections in literature American Family relationships Kate Zambreno BOOK 61331 61331 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2023-12-10 Zafaa Books 0 818.6 ZAM 29885 2023-12-10 00:00:00 2023-12-10 BOOK