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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
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Television
- Polio
- Home
- Shame
- Miltown
- After Lacan
- Mirror
- Bam Zoom
- Willow
- Allegory
- Brown
- Angels
- Miracles
- Pink Desk
- I Remember Mama
- Bomb Scares
- Happy Days
- Resistance
- Posture
- Job
- Hammock
- Games
- Gloves
- Coming of Age
- Shoe
- Notes from a Voyage
- School
- Me and Marlene
- *
- War
- C’est Moi
- Motherhood
- Jackpot
- A Memoir
- Gratitude
- The Secret
- Larks
- Panic
- Gurus
- Typewriter
- Goats
- Poet
- The Funny Hat Story
- The Movie Star
- Compulsion
- TV or no TV
- Hortensia
- Alice’s Restaurant, Redux
- Rosa
- No Pickles
- Mad Men
- Sorrow
- *
- Television
- Binge
- Touch
- Full Disclosure
- Two Versions
- That Husband
- What If
- Nostos
- The End of Desire
- My Boyfriend’s Significant Others
- My Brilliant Career
- Teeth
- Second Arrow
- What Has to Be Broken Before You Use It?
- Welcome
- The Bargain
- New Names for Me
- Who Will Replace Gaby Hoffmann?
- Property
- Fort Da
- Last Workshop
- Positivity
- Parallel States of Loss
- The Great Water
- The Future
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author