E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Electronic book text, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Crew Other Girls to Burn
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8203-6044-7
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Electronic book text, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
ISBN: 978-0-8203-6044-7
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Other Girls to Burn is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between women and violence within such contexts as the 2014 Isla Vista shooting, early Christian virgin martyrs (discussed in relation with modern true crime stories), mixed martial arts, and rape culture. Formally inventive and lyric leaning, these essays shift between cultural criticism and personal essay and cohere around a central motif of female mystics. With them, Caroline Crew asks, What does it mean for women to be complicit in the violence of the patriarchy? How do women navigate risk as well as revel in thrill? What does it mean to both fear and perpetuate violence?
The essays explore disparate cultural touch points, such as contemporary feminism, race, hagiography, the Salem witch trials, dementia, fairy tales, Eurydice, indie music, gender performance, Anne Boleyn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, family dysfunction, and vaginismus, to name a few. Together, this collection is in conversation with contemporary nonfiction writers such as Maggie Nelson, Sarah Manguso, and Anne Boyer.
