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Chargement... In the Dream House: A Memoir (édition 2019)par Carmen Maria Machado (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreIn the Dream House: A Memoir par Carmen Maria Machado
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is hard to read as it revolves around abuse in queer romantic relationships. I do appreciate how it was structured and written. Machado's memoir is a compelling and imaginative telling of a partnership with an abusive lesbian lover. Grad students, they commute between Bloomington IN where the Dream House is and the narrator's school in Iowa City. As the gas lighting and verbal threats escalate, Machado frankly describes her victim stance and inability to extricate herself. Her studies would have been insupportable without good friends. "When you try to talk about the Dream House afterward, some people listen, others politely nod while slowly closing the door behind their eyes; you might as well be a proselytizing Jehovah's Witness or an encyclopedia peddler." She footnotes the short chapters with an index to Motifs in Folk Literature referencing the taboos surfacing in their dissension and sociological notes on queer domestic abuse. Her honesty and the poetry of her writing kept me rapt.
On its surface, the book recounts a psychologically abusive relationship that marked Machado's life in many ways. However, just below the surface, the narrative continually shapeshifts and at times becomes a play, an academic look at female queerness in mainstream media, a choose your own adventure book, and a sharp deconstruction of the mechanisms of psychological abuse. That said, the total is more than the sum of its parts and In the Dream House is the kind of book that burrows under the reader's skin while simultaneously forcing her to inhabit the body of the writer.... In the Dream House is an uncomfortable read. It is a narrative that is never what you think it is, a story about "a house that was not a house and a dream that was no dream at all." The nameless woman and the house merge together and become a dark reality as well as a haunting nightmare. “In the Dream House” is a page turner of psychological suspense. In short chapters that alternate between lucid scenes from her life and forays into fairy tales, legal histories, queer theory and cultural mainstays like “Star Trek” and “Gaslight,” Machado evokes how abusers entrap their targets with sustained attention, so rare among the distracted shards of modern romance, and therefore precious....As she wrote in her first book, “Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.” Machado is not among them, nor are her readers. What could seem gimmicky — I confess I braced myself at first — quickly feels like the only natural way to tell the story of a couple. What relationship exists in purely one genre? What life? ... There is something anxious, and very intriguing, in the degree of experimentation in this memoir, in its elaborately titivated sentences, its thicket of citations. The flurry — the excess — feels deliberate, and summons up the image of the writer holding a ring of keys, trying each of them in turn to unlock a resistant story, to open a door she might be hesitant to enter.... At its conclusion, what does she leave us but a library in miniature — those long-invisible, long-suppressed stories now culled from every quarter of history, and explored in every conceivable genre — a living archive of her own loving, idiosyncratic design. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
Biography & Autobiography.
LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.)
Nonfiction.
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope-the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman-through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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