Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh: Unmothered, Untongued, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Unmothered, Untongued
- Lyric Essays
- Auswahl:
- Chloé Cooper Jones
- Publisher:
- University of Georgia Press, 09/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780820374413
- Item number:
- 12288298
- Volume:
- 234 Pages
- Weight:
- 318 g
- Format:
- 213 x 145 mm
- Thickness:
- 28 mm
- Release date:
- 15.9.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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, weaving together intersectionalities and intertextualities. Author 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 nonnative, 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 a source of illumination and clarity. 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.