The Queen of Peace room / Magie Dominic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dominic, Magie, 1944-

Series:

Life writing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominic, Magie, 1944-.

Dominic, Magie.

Adult child sexual abuse victims--Biography.

Adult child sexual abuse victims.

Women--Violence against--Biography.

Women.

Women--Violence against.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 114 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer -- and frees herself from the memories of her violent past.

On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforgettable images. The room she inhabits while there is called The Queen of Peace Room; it becomes, for her, a room of sanctuary. She examines Newfoundland in the 1940s and 1950s and New York in the 1960s; her confrontations with violence, incest, and rape; the devastating loss of friends to AIDS; and the relationship between life and art. These memories she finds stored alongside memories of nature -- images of trees pulling themselves up from their roots and fleeing the forest; storms and ley lines, and skies bursting with star-like eyes. In The Queen of Peace Room, from a very personal perspective, Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. In eight days, she captures half a century.

Contents:

Liturgy of the Hours xiii

Chapter 1 Friday, Midnight 3

Chapter 2 Saturday Morning 11

Chapter 3 Sunday, 7 A.M. 23

Chapter 4 Monday, 6 A.M. 43

Chapter 5 Tuesday, Dawn 63

Chapter 6 Wednesday, Pre-dawn 79

Chapter 7 Thursday, 9 A.M. 89

Chapter 8 Friday, Rain 93

Afterword: Reading The Queen of Peace Room As Witness: An Ethics of Encounter 103.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0889204179

OCLC:

50143545