Lana Lin: The Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam
- Publisher:
- New York Review of Books, 09/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781948980296
- Item number:
- 12161602
- Volume:
- 224 Pages
- Weight:
- 367 g
- Format:
- 178 x 141 mm
- Thickness:
- 16 mm
- Release date:
- 30.9.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lamis an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.
In her 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas , Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, blurring the lines between portrait and self-portrait. Almost a century later, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein's project to tell a different story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration.
At heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao's life journey from Việt Nam during the war, and her own troubled history as a gender-queer Taiwanese American, Lin draws in subjects as varied as photography, cancer, tropical fruit, 9 / 11, and Eve Sedgwick's eyeglasses, weaving an intimate landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender.
