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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A beautifully produced meditation on selfhood and how it intersects with complex family relationships and disconnection from heritage. Born in Korea, Arnold is an adoptee of American parents, but the questions she asks about identity are relevant to anyone whose parentage is complicated by fractured relationships and lost memories. So much of this book made me ask myself: how many of the "truths" I've been given about my identity are not truths at all? Or at least, only as true as a fairy tale? Do I really remember what I remember? Or is it just more comforting to "know" what I'm told? The orphan's story, whether in fairy tale or in life, shines a light on the many ways in which every individual must master her own story. In this wise, welcoming book, Arnold also employs an enthralling selection of images that reminded me of how inclined I am to look at my family's professed memories through a lens that is not my own. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Litany for the Long Moment is an assemblage of concise and poetic responses to unanswerable questions grounded in memory's combining powers, and in the pronouncements and obscurities of the personal archive and public document. It is a work that seeks to retrieve impossible-to-access reality, which extends through and beyond the singular experiences of poverty and diaspora of the author's early Korean life and unforeseeable future trauma in the American world of the new mother. Arnold's deft employment of commonplace items, such as a graph of the Hangul alphabet or the Korean television program questionnaire, which she uses as a compositional prompt throughout the essay, guides the reader through a terrain of never-settled fact, difficult desire, and obscurity of persons and histories that animate her excursion into zones of personal and philosophical doubt"--Page ix. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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