Name: The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir (en Inglés)
SKU: 61816783
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Author: Epum, Freda
ISBN: 9781558613102

portada The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir (en Inglés)

The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Freda Epum

Editorial

Feminist Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781558613102

Categorías

Memorias
Discapacidad: aspectos sociales
Feminismo y teoría feminista

The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir (en Inglés)

Freda Epum (Autor) · Feminist Press · Tapa Blanda

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Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American's search for home and belonging on her own terms.In three parts, The Gloomy Girl Variety Show traces the joys and despairs of an imaginary house hunt. Author Freda Epum takes the real-life housing inequity she encounters and spins it into a sprawling meditation on the larger cost of living and enduring as a Black disabled woman in America. Brick by brick, and despite the difficulties she faces, Epum creates space for women, people of color, people with disabilities, children of immigrants, and anyone else who has felt "in-between."In this formally inventive memoir woven with essays, poems, and images, Epum explores the opposing forces of her "no-place, no-where" identity. As a Nigerian American daughter who spent years in and out of institutions while she sought treatment for life-threatening mental illness, Epum examines her journey through healthcare and housing systems via a pop cultural lens: our collective obsession with HGTV's home buying and makeover shows.With raw honesty and a wry sense of humor, The Gloomy Girl Variety Show explores the complexity of coming of age under intersecting forms of oppression, and reveals what it takes to come back from the brink of despair and arrive somewhere safe, beautiful, and empowering.