000			02008nam a22002297a 4500
005			20231210004848.0
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020			_a9781584351962
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. _c: ZBD0272 _d: 03/12/2023
082			_a818.6 ZAM
100			_aZambreno, Kate.
245			_aBook of mutter _c/ Kate Zambreno.
260			_a, South Pasadena, CA _b: ,Semiotext(e) _c, 2017
300			_a 216 pages _b : illustrations _c; 22 cm.
520			_a"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."
650			_aBiography
650			_aMothers and daughters
650			_aReflections in literature
650			_aAmerican Family relationships
700			_aKate Zambreno
942			_cBOOK
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