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E.J. Koh

The Magical Language of Others

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

A Best Book of the Year at TIMELibrary Journal, NPR, Electric Lit, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, Apple Books, and the New York Public Library

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered—an icon and idol—alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America’s most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and love.

Shapland is a graduate student when she first uncovers letters written to Carson McCullers by a woman named Annemarie. Though Shapland recognizes herself in the letters, which are intimate and unabashed in their feelings, she does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Her curiosity gives way to fixation, not just with this newly discovered side of McCullers’s life, but with how we tell queer love stories. Why, Shapland asks, are the stories of women paved over by others’ narratives? What happens when constant revision is required of queer women trying to navigate and self-actualize in straight spaces? And what might the tracing of McCullers’s life—her history, her secrets, her legacy—reveal to Shapland about herself?

In smart, illuminating prose, Shapland interweaves her own story with McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one of our nation’s greatest literary treasures, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.
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167 páginas impresas
Publicación original
2020
Año de publicación
2020
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  • kinokito compartió una citahace 3 años
    Mommy addresses a child, who remains one in her letters. This becomes clear when she switches to third person. When you feel a little better, if you want to talk to Mommy again, call me. Her third person is, in part, her mothering.
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