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Book of mutter / Kate Zambreno
This experimental work explores grief and memory following the death of the author's mother, blending elements of memoir, essay and poetry. It employs a fragmented structure to analyse the intersection of family history, photography, art and literature.
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Accession Number: 12408
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View in Vernon Browser| vernon_accession | 12408 |
| vernon_id | 19534 |
| vernon_slug | book-of-mutter-kate-zambreno |
| vernon_authors | Kate Zambreno |
| vernon_tags | Social psychology, Psychology, Memory, Thought and thinking, Social sciences, Civilisation, Sociology, American literature, United States -- Literatures, Death, Life, Families, Social institutions, Interpersonal relations, Grief, Bereavement, Parent and child, Mother and child, Memory in art, Parents |
| vernon_production_date | 2017 |
| vernon_brief_description | Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes—and dead calm—of grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form on Bourgeois's Cells sculptures—at once channeling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space. -- Publisher. |
| vernon_object_type | Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication |
| vernon_locations | Stored |
| vernon_ob_status | Accessioned |
| vernon_isbn_issn | 9781584351962 |
| vernon_subject_people | Henry Darger (b.1892, d.1973), Louise Bourgeois (b.1911, d.2010), Roland Barthes (French, b.1915, d.1980) |
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| vernon_last_sync_timestamp | 2026-02-24 16:58 |
| vernon_cover_image_id | 28646 |