unMothered, unTongued : lyric essays /
"UnMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity. This is a collection that weaves together intersectionalities and intertextualities. In this book, Lee H...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | The Sue William Silverman Prize for creative nonfiction
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| Summary: | "UnMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity. This is a collection that weaves together intersectionalities and intertextualities. In this book, Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, a biracial LGBTQIA+ Nisei who was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, to a non-native-English-speaking Issei mother, considers not only the tensions in the rifts between intersectional identities (biracial Nisei, LGBTQIA+); but also the tensions between marginalized identities and the landscapes and cultures of the American West; the tensions between non-native, second, erased and/or forgotten languages; and the tensions between those who abuse and those who survive. These rifts, intersections, and fractures, while frequently a source of violence and immense grief are also, at the same time, a source of illumination and clarity as well. The essays in this collection are written almost entirely in hybrid/lyric forms-oftentimes braided, oftentimes, patchworked, oftentimes segmented-reflecting some of the fractured complexities and intersections of Horikoshi Roripaugh's own hybrid identities"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 226 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780820374413 0820374415 |