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Dear Queer Self – An Experiment in Memoir
Engelsk Paperback
Dear Queer Self – An Experiment in Memoir
Engelsk Paperback

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An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity. In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and the steady advancements in gay rights that followed. With humor and wit afforded by hindsight, Alexander relives his closeted college years, his experiments with his sexuality in graduate school, his first marriage to a woman, and his budding career as a college professor.   As he moves from tortured self-denial to hard-won self-acceptance, the author confronts the deeply uncomfortable ways he is implicated in his own story. More than just a coming-out narrative, Dear Queer Self is both an intimate psychological exploration and a cultural examination—a meshing of inner and outer realities and a personal reckoning with how we sometimes torture the truth to make a life. It is also a love letter, an homage to a decade of rapid change, and a playlist of the sounds, sights, and feelings of a difficult, but ultimately transformative, time.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
180
ISBN-13:
9781946724465
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1946724467
Udg. Dato:
14 mar 2022
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
215mm
Højde:
141mm
Forlag:
Acre Books
Oplagsdato:
14 mar 2022
Forfatter(e):
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