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In the Dream House: A Memoir (udgave 2019)

af Carmen Maria Machado (Forfatter)

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Biography & Autobiography. LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.) Nonfiction. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope-the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman-through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.… (mere)
Medlem:RidgewayGirl
Titel:In the Dream House: A Memoir
Forfattere:Carmen Maria Machado (Forfatter)
Info:Graywolf Press (2019), 272 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
Vurdering:****1/2
Nøgleord:Non-Fiction, American Author, Memoir, LGBTQ, 2021CC

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In the Dream House: A Memoir af Carmen Maria Machado

Nyligt tilføjet afprivat bibliotek, Miggle25, unia666, CarmenBrown, msdahman, Kayleb, meggiehart, alibcunz, RachelPollock
  1. 10
    Dept. of Speculation af Jenny Offill (wandering_star)
    wandering_star: Similar fragmented approach to telling a devastating story.
  2. 10
    H Is for Hawk af Helen Macdonald (vwinsloe)
    vwinsloe: The author processes a traumatic event outside of her control by training a hawk and comparing the experience to the events in T.H. White's memoir. Very unlike In the Dream House in most ways, except that Machado also tries to process her trauma by looking at it through a variety of lenses, as though through broken glass.… (mere)
  3. 00
    Notes Made While Falling (Goldsmiths Press) af Jenn Ashworth (wandering_star)
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As I suspected, way better as text than an audiobook, I'm glad I tried again. Once I started reading I couldn't stop. ( )
  caedocyon | Feb 21, 2024 |
Simply the best memoir I’ve ever read. It’s experimental in ways that are extremely my shit (e.g. a Choose Your Own Adventure chapter). The prose is gorgeous. The mix of parable, lived experience, and a unique second person voice truly gives the book a dreamlike feel. ( )
  Ghost1y | Jan 28, 2024 |
Lo desidererai lo stesso. La lucidità è una droga inebriante, e tu hai passato quasi due anni senza, convinta che stavi perdendo il senno, convinta che eri tu il mostro, e vuoi qualcosa in bianco o nero più di qualsiasi cosa tu abbia mai voluto a questo mondo.


Non c’è niente da fare: i libri di Carmen Maria Machado mi piacciono proprio tanto e mi colpiscono a un livello così viscerale che mi riesce difficile spiegare cos’è che mi colpisce tanto della sua scrittura. Com’era stato per Il suo corpo e altre feste, nemmeno Nella casa dei tuoi sogni è un libro perfetto e contiene diversi punti nei quali Machado non è efficace come potrebbe, ma quando sono arrivata in fondo all’ebook tutto quello a cui riuscivo a pensare era: wow.

Wow perché Machado racconta una di quelle storie che solitamente vengono trascurate e che vanno perse nel flusso del tempo e dello spazio: la sua relazione con una donna manipolatrice e violenta. Per molto tempo questo tipo di storie è rimasto sottotraccia, indagato solo da poche persone – molte donne, perché anche nell’universo LGBTQIA+, le donne sono quelle con gli strumenti più affinati dall’esperienza di riconoscere e affrontare il tema della violenza domestica. Machado ha fatto un grande lavoro per rintracciare questi testi e tributare loro l’onore dell’aver per primi affrontato la questione, per poi lanciarsi nel suo racconto.

Il primo libro sui maltrattamenti tra lesbiche è stato pubblicato l’anno in cui sono nata io. Non sarà l’erudizione più antica del mondo, ma non è neanche così recente. Perché nessuno me lo ha detto? E chi avrebbe dovuto dirmelo? Conoscevo pochissima gente queer, e quasi tutti avevano la mia età, e anche loro stavano ancora cercando di capirci qualcosa.


Il vantaggio di avere a che fare con storie poco frequentate è sicuramente quello di potersi muovere in totale libertà, una libertà che Machado sfrutta muovendosi con disinvoltura tra i generi e tra le storie già raccontate e facendo sì che il racconto della sua esperienza ne respiri altri. Infatti, nonostante Machado parli della sua vita e quindi di una storia strettamente personale, Nella casa dei tuoi sogni è aperto alle contaminazioni e ai suggerimenti di chiunque possa arricchirne e facilitarne la stesura.

Leggendolo, si ha la sensazione di fluidità, di un racconto generoso che sa di non aver detto tutto quanto c’era da dire e che si pone come un semplice tassello di un mosaico ancora tutto da comporre: Machado sa che nel tempo e nello spazio cambiano sia il modo sia il punto di vista di chi racconta una storia e che per raccontare delle variegate esperienze degli esseri umani non ci si può fermare alle conoscenze condivise, a quello che sappiamo o crediamo di sapere, a quella che vorremmo fosse la realtà.

Si è continuato ad andare in tondo, girando intorno a verità fondamentali che nessuno voleva guardare dritto in faccia, come se fossero il sole: le donne possono abusare di altre donne. Le donne hanno abusato di altre donne. E le persone queer dovevano prendere seriamente questo problema, perché non lo avrebbe fatto nessun altro.


Non vedo l’ora di leggere di nuovo Machado. Non vedo l’ora di leggere altre storie rimaste nell’ombra. ( )
  lasiepedimore | Jan 17, 2024 |
Absolutely haunting but in the most amazing way. This traverses anything I thought a memoir could be and is a must read for everyone ( )
  the.lesbian.library | Jan 15, 2024 |
Trigger warning for abusive relationships. Beautifully written, compelling story about a woman emerging from an abusive relationship, with lots of exploration about how abuse in lesbian relationships has been historically been ignored / erased / disbelieved / uncomprehended. Ultimately uplifting, and, while definitely tough at times, not as harrowing a read as I had feared. Highly recommended. ( )
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
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On its surface, the book recounts a psychologically abusive relationship that marked Machado's life in many ways. However, just below the surface, the narrative continually shapeshifts and at times becomes a play, an academic look at female queerness in mainstream media, a choose your own adventure book, and a sharp deconstruction of the mechanisms of psychological abuse. That said, the total is more than the sum of its parts and In the Dream House is the kind of book that burrows under the reader's skin while simultaneously forcing her to inhabit the body of the writer.... In the Dream House is an uncomfortable read. It is a narrative that is never what you think it is, a story about "a house that was not a house and a dream that was no dream at all." The nameless woman and the house merge together and become a dark reality as well as a haunting nightmare.
 
“In the Dream House” is a page turner of psychological suspense. In short chapters that alternate between lucid scenes from her life and forays into fairy tales, legal histories, queer theory and cultural mainstays like “Star Trek” and “Gaslight,” Machado evokes how abusers entrap their targets with sustained attention, so rare among the distracted shards of modern romance, and therefore precious....As she wrote in her first book, “Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.” Machado is not among them, nor are her readers.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerWashington Post, Kristen Millares Young (pay site) (Nov 5, 2019)
 
What could seem gimmicky — I confess I braced myself at first — quickly feels like the only natural way to tell the story of a couple. What relationship exists in purely one genre? What life? ... There is something anxious, and very intriguing, in the degree of experimentation in this memoir, in its elaborately titivated sentences, its thicket of citations. The flurry — the excess — feels deliberate, and summons up the image of the writer holding a ring of keys, trying each of them in turn to unlock a resistant story, to open a door she might be hesitant to enter.... At its conclusion, what does she leave us but a library in miniature — those long-invisible, long-suppressed stories now culled from every quarter of history, and explored in every conceivable genre — a living archive of her own loving, idiosyncratic design.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerNew York Times, Parul Sehgal (pay site) (Oct 29, 2019)
 

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Biography & Autobiography. LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.) Nonfiction. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope-the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman-through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

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