A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties .
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 b...
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties .
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--haunted houses, erotica, bildungsroman--in 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 about 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, Star Trek and Disney villains, fairy tales, 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.
作者简介
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Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, a...
Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the Crawford Award. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."
Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
The movie ends, and you both sit there in the dark. You start to nervously chatter about trivia-"Did you know the story this movie is based on wona Nebula Award? It--
She kisses you.
Upstairs, you both tumble onto her bed. She never kisses you in the same place twice. Then she says, "I'd like to take your shirt off. May I? And you nod, and she does. She slides her hand around your bra clasp." Is this all right?"she asks. The room smells like lavender, or maybe you just remember that because her comforter was lavender. Every time her hand moves somewhere else, she whispers, "May I?" and the thrill of saying yes, yes, is like the pulsing of the tide over your face, and you would gladly drown that way, giving permission. (查看原文)
And you want to cry and explain that the TSA agent stole your favorite water bottle because he wouldn’t let you drink its contents, because perhaps he believed that the bottle contained the liquid from a bomb and by drinking it you would turn into that same bomb, or probably he was just on a power trip because his face didn’t change when you begged him to let you keep what you already owned, and also you’re afraid you’re going to miss your flight because your girlfriend spent her time this morning putting on her face, an expression you’ve always found sort of funny and vaguely sexist but that now just strikes you as horrifyingly ominous, because it suggests that she has one face and needs to put on another, and you saw underneath it last night, when you were so afraid and cowering, and she... (查看原文)
开篇她写，有一个概念archival silence. 档案记录的沉默与空白，一些个体和群体的经验在这种空白里消失，被清除、忽视、遗忘：这种沉默是一种语言的失去。 Carmen Maria Machado是我最喜欢的当代短篇小说家之一。这一本回忆录围绕她遭遇的来自自己同性伴侣的暴力——她把这段关...
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倒是没想到前脚在法语文集里读到作者引的那句“If you want to be my friend, you must do two things. First, forget I am a lesbian. And second, never forget I am a lesbian.”，后脚就在Shakespeare & Company的staff recommendation柜台发现了此书新版，还有着很漂亮的...
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First of all I view this book as a fairy tale containing many modern elements. So it does have a traditional fairy tale background, where a women who is rather imperfect and vulnerable meets a gorgeous---- mostly man in other stories----woman. It reminds me...
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In the process of recounting her experience in an abusive lesbian relationship, the author occasionally cites a folklore motif in the footnote, suggesting a particular episode of her story has overlap with a common folkloric paradigm. The book is an authent...
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0 有用 Iris.Moira 2024-02-03 10:29:04 日本
时隔一年又重读仍旧觉得十分惊艳，而且非常能抓住人，不知不觉就很快得看完了。
0 有用 Xenia 2021-03-19 01:09:38
重听了一遍有声书 在女友嫌弃她总是不自觉地哼歌那里被trigger到了 sometimes we forget leaving is an option