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Bloody woman : essays / Lana Lopesi.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.4.L67 B56 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lopesi, Lana, 1992- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Samoan.
- Women, Samoan--Social conditions--21st century.
- Women, Samoan--New Zealand--Social conditions--21st century.
- Social conditions.
- New Zealand--Social conditions--21st century.
- New Zealand.
- Islands of the Pacific--Social conditions--21st century.
- Islands of the Pacific.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- New Zealand essays -- 21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 182 pages ; 23 x 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and SaÌmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary reflections on women's experiences and the Pacific. These essays lead into the messy and the sticky, the whispered conversations and the unspoken. As Lopesi writes, 'Bloody Woman has been scary to write... In putting words to my years of thinking, following the blood and revealing the evidence board in my mind, I am breaking a silence to try to understand something. It feels terrifying, but right.' These acts of self-revelation ultimately seek to open up new spaces, to acknowledge the narratives not yet written, and the voices to come"--Publisher information.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Tusiata Avia
- Preface
- Tautalaitiiti Girls Need No Defence
- Teine SaÌ, My Feminist Icons
- Brown & Bougle
- Pacific Cyberhunnies & Digitisation of Care
- Creative Representations of Joy & Hyena Laughs of Resistance
- Swimming in Circles
- Eighty-three Mostly Babies & Children, 3.269 Kilometres & Three Generations
- There Is a VaÌ Between My Thighs
- Becoming a Bloody Woman
- An Open Letter to My Future Adult Children
- Notes:
- Essays.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781988587998
- 1988587999
- OCLC:
- 1265004128
- Publisher Number:
- 99989456118
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