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Recollections of My Non-Existence

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By (author): Rebecca Solnit

In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, and the authority figures that routinely disbelieved her. That violence weighed on her as she faced the task of having a voice in a society that preferred women to shut up or go away. Set in the era of punk, of growing gay pride, of counter culture and West Coast activism, during the latter years of second wave feminism, Recollections of My Non-Existence is the foundational story of an emerging artist struggling against patriarchal violence and scorn. Recalling the experience of living with fear, which Solnit contends is the normal state of women, she considers how oppression impacts on creativity and recounts the struggle to find a voice and have it be heard. Place and the growing culture of activism liberated her, as did the magical world of literature and books. And over time, the clamour of voices against violence to women coalesced in the current feminist upheaval, a movement in which Solnit was a widely audible participant. Here is an electric account of the pauses and gains of feminism in the past forty years; and an extraordinary portrait of an artist, by a seminal American writer. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 346g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781783785445

About Rebecca Solnit

REBECCA SOLNIT is author of among other books Call Them By Their True Names The Mother of All Questions Men Explain Things to Me Wanderlust A Field Guide to Getting Lost the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.

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