Melnick Lynn Melnick

I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive (eBook, ePUB)

On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon. The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab program. Already in her young life as a Jewish teen in the 1980s, she had been the victim of rape, abuse, and trauma, and her path to healing would be long. But in Parton s words and music, she recognized a fellow survivor. In this powerful, incisive work of social and self-exploration, Melnick blends personal essay with cultural criticism to explore Parton s dual identities as feminist icon and objectified sex symbol, identities that reflect the author s own fraught history with rape culture and the arduous work of reclaiming her voice. Each chapter engages with the artistry and impact of one of Parton s songs, as Melnick reckons with violence, misogyny, creativity, parenting, friendship, sex, love, and the consolations and cruelties of religion. Bold and inventive, I ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive gives us an accessible and memorable framework for understanding our times and a revelatory account of survival, persistence, and self-discovery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781477326008
• Artikelnr.: 72309351

Autorenporträt

Lynn Melnick is the author of three books of poetry and a contributor to Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. Her poems have appeared in the New Republic, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review; her essays have appeared in Jewish Currents, LA Review of Books, and Poetry Daily. Born in Indianapolis, she grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Seven Bridges Road
Chapter One: Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That
Chapter Two: Steady as the Rain
Chapter Three: The Seeker
Chapter Four: Here You Come Again
Chapter Five: Jolene
Chapter Six: The Grass Is Blue
Chapter Seven: Coat of Many Colors
Chapter Eight: Islands in the Stream
Chapter Nine: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Chapter Ten: Will He Be Waiting for Me
Chapter Eleven: Down from Dover
Chapter Twelve: Silver Dagger
Chapter Thirteen: Don’t Think Twice
Chapter Fourteen: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
Chapter Fifteen: Little Sparrow
Chapter Sixteen: 9 to 5
Chapter Seventeen: Two Doors Down
Chapter Eighteen: Put a Little Love in Your Heart
Chapter Nineteen: Blue Smoke
Chapter Twenty: Bargain Store
Chapter Twenty-One: The Story
Acknowledgments: I Will Always Love You
References and Resources