EAN: 9781982187897

MOTHERS FATHERS AND OTHERS - SIRI HUSTVEDT KART...

Feminist philosophy and family memoir merge in this new essay collection from award-winning
author 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)  Siri 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 Louise Bourgeois  to the broader meanings of the 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  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.

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