Television, a memoir
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Television, a memoir

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eBook - ePub

Television, a memoir

About this book

Television, a memoir is a hybrid collection of autobiographical pieces, tragi-comic in spirit, that depict a woman's life evolving through time and culture in fragmentary glimpses. Indeterminate in genre, Television is a fluid text that sometimes reads as poetry, sometimes as prose, while exploring classism, ableism, and feminism in a world defined by the advent of new media and, for the author, a privilege that often felt suffocating. Working structurally and thematically, television creates conceptual mileposts in the memoir, with certain programs and cultural references corresponding to specific eras in the author's past, but it also gestures at an existential modality — the experience of a televisual life, the performative arrangements of nuclear families and neighborhoods, the periodic events and dramas of an adolescence watched from outside oneself.

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Contents

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Television
  7. Polio
  8. Home
  9. Shame
  10. Miltown
  11. After Lacan
  12. Mirror
  13. Bam Zoom
  14. Willow
  15. Allegory
  16. Brown
  17. Angels
  18. Miracles
  19. Pink Desk
  20. I Remember Mama
  21. Bomb Scares
  22. Happy Days
  23. Resistance
  24. Posture
  25. Job
  26. Hammock
  27. Games
  28. Gloves
  29. Coming of Age
  30. Shoe
  31. Notes from a Voyage
  32. School
  33. Me and Marlene
  34. *
  35. War
  36. C’est Moi
  37. Motherhood
  38. Jackpot
  39. A Memoir
  40. Gratitude
  41. The Secret
  42. Larks
  43. Panic
  44. Gurus
  45. Typewriter
  46. Goats
  47. Poet
  48. The Funny Hat Story
  49. The Movie Star
  50. Compulsion
  51. TV or no TV
  52. Hortensia
  53. Alice’s Restaurant, Redux
  54. Rosa
  55. No Pickles
  56. Mad Men
  57. Sorrow
  58. *
  59. Television
  60. Binge
  61. Touch
  62. Full Disclosure
  63. Two Versions
  64. That Husband
  65. What If
  66. Nostos
  67. The End of Desire
  68. My Boyfriend’s Significant Others
  69. My Brilliant Career
  70. Teeth
  71. Second Arrow
  72. What Has to Be Broken Before You Use It?
  73. Welcome
  74. The Bargain
  75. New Names for Me
  76. Who Will Replace Gaby Hoffmann?
  77. Property
  78. Fort Da
  79. Last Workshop
  80. Positivity
  81. Parallel States of Loss
  82. The Great Water
  83. The Future
  84. Notes
  85. Acknowledgments
  86. About the Author