EAN: 9780593083345

RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTENCE - REBECCA SOLN...

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a
society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence  Rebecca Solnit
describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco  in an atmosphere
of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from
cultural arenas. She tells of being poor  hopeful  and adrift in the city that became her great
teacher  and of the small apartment that  when she was nineteen  became the home in which she
transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a
writer-books themselves  the gay community that presented a new model of what else gender 
family  and joy could mean  and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked
conflicts of the American West. Beyond being a memoir  Solnit's book is also a passionate
argument: that women are not just impacted by personal experience  but by membership in a
society where violence against women pervades. Looking back  she describes how she came to
recognize that her own experiences of harassment and menace were inseparable from the systemic
problem of who has a voice  or rather who is heard and respected and who is silenced-and how
she was galvanized to use her own voice for change. Story Locale: Primarily San Francisco  CA 
also greater California and Nevada

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