Naked in the Promised Land
移民家庭に生まれた著者が、少女期の貧困、ショウビジネスへの憧れ、若い時代の危うい生活を経て、学問の世界で自分の居場所を築くまでをたどる回想録。家族史、性的自認、階級、ユダヤ系アメリカ人としての経験が重なり合い、個人史を通して20世紀アメリカ社会の輪郭が見えてくる。
作品情報
ひとりの人生が、家族の記憶と時代の変化を映す場所になる。
移民家庭に生まれた著者が、貧しい少女時代からショウビジネスの世界、バークレーでの学び、そしてレズビアン史研究の先駆的な仕事に至るまでを自らの言葉でたどる回想録。個人の生を通して、ジェンダー、階級、移民史、クィア史が交差するアメリカの輪郭を描き出す。
レビュー要約
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率直な自己開示と歴史的な厚みが支持されている。幼少期から学術者としての成熟までを一気にたどる構成が力強く、個人史と社会史を自然につなげている。一方で、まっすぐな語り口が強いぶん、感情の揺れよりも記録性が前に出ると受け止める読者もいる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Univ of Wisconsin Pr
- 発売日
- 2004-07-30
- ページ数
- 356ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780299200145
- ISBN-10
- 0299200140
- 価格
- 2599 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Specific Groups/Women
The daughter of an unmarried immigrant Jewish garment worker whose family had perished in the Holocaust, Lillian Faderman dreamed of being an actress. Instead she worked her way through college by posing for nude photographs, and by stripping. She slowly discovered that her deepest erotic and emotional connections were to women. After nearly losing herself in a dangerous underworld of addicts, pimps, and prostitutes, she became a brilliant student, eventually earning a Ph.D. And she became a loving partner, a devoted mother, an influential writer, and a groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies.
Lillian Faderman is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman , Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers , and Surpassing the Love of Men . Among her many honors are Yale Universitys James Brudner Award for exemplary scholarship in lesbian and gay studies, three Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association awards, the Monette-Horwitz Award, the American Association of University Womens National Distinguished Scholar Award. She teaches literature and creative writing at California State University at Fresno. Lillian Faderman is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman , Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers , and Surpassing the Love of Men . Among her many honors are Yale University&;s James Brudner Award for exemplary scholarship in lesbian and gay studies, three Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association awards, the Monette-Horwitz Award, the American Association of University Women&;s National Distinguished Scholar Award. She teaches literature and creative writing at California State University at Fresno.
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What an incredible story. I loved this book
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Good condition though I didn't realized it was used from a Library. Notes on it and some stamps but it was my fault I didn't read properly. Perhaps a little bit expensive for being from this site
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Faderman has contributed so much to the general history of LGBTQ people, particularly lesbians, that it was delightful to read her own coming-of-age story, starting with her life as a child being raised by her immigrant Mom and aunt, and ending with the ascent of her professional career as an academic and writer. She gives us a first-person glimpse into lesbian life in the bad old days--the 50s and 60s--and also documents her struggle to become her own person while still maintaining her strong ties to her Jewish family and heritage. An excellent read.
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I thought the reviews that I read were missleading. It is very graphic is you have had no lesbeian exprience. She really told it the way it was and how she survived the dysfunctional childhhood to become a a very powerful women in California Univeristy System during the 19070's. Very amazing sucess and survial story.
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Faderman nails the characters in her memoir so vividly they become next door neighbors. This book is a fast paced, beautifully written life journey. The reader is dismayed as the author seeks in vain to find her way through a childhood filled with little and wolefully inaccurate information to navigate. Faderman chooses many self destructive roads before engaging her wonderful intellect to embrace and direct herself towards fulfillment.
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