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Golem Girl: A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL - Softcover

Lehrer, Riva

 
9780349014838: Golem Girl: A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349014833 ISBN 13: 9780349014838
Verlag: Virago, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - the vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies; 'a hymn to life' (DAVID MITCHELL).

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people with impairments, and those whose sexuality or gender identity have long been stigmatized. A longtime faculty member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Riva Lehrer is currently an instructor in medical humanities at Northwestern University.

https://www.rivalehrerart.com/

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Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award

'Luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young-and mature-woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love, family and spirit' David Mitchell

In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. She endures endless medical procedures and is told she will never have a job, a romantic relationship or an independent life. But everything changes when as an adult Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers and performers who are building Disability Culture. Their work is daring, edgy, funny and dark, and it rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic, frightening or worthless, instead insisting that disability is an opportunity for creativity and resistance. Riva begins to paint their portraits - and her art begins to transform the myths she's been told her whole life about her body, her sexuality and other measures of normal.

'A brilliant book, full of strangeness, beauty and wonder' Audrey Niffenegger

'Stunning' Alison Bechdel

'Wonderful. An ode to art and the beauty of disability' Cerrie Burnell

'Vivid . . . unforgettable . . . expands our notion of what constitutes the human experience' Andrew Solomon

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349014833
ISBN 13 
9780349014838
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Anzahl der Seiten
448
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