Trauma Plot: A Life - Brossura

Hood, Jamie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 059368608X ISBN 13: 9780593686089

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2026

Riassunto

From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival

A VULTURE NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Piercing . . . . Trauma Plot flips the confessional memoir on its head."--The Cut

"An innovative, rigorous, genre-bending, and ultimately life-affirming account of what it takes to survive."--Vulture

In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, how to be a good girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood's "bold vulnerability," and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020.

In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in good girl's margins--of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind. With her trademark critical remove, Hood interrogates the archetype of the rape survivor, who must perform penitence long after living through the unthinkable, invoking some of art's most infamous women to have played the role: Ovid's Philomela, David Lynch's Laura Palmer, and Artemisia Gentileschi, who captured Judith's wrath. In so doing, she asks: What do we as a culture demand of survivors? And what do survivors, in turn, owe a world that has abandoned them?

Trauma Plot is a scalding work of personal and literary criticism. It is a send-up of our culture's pious disdain for "trauma porn," a dirge for the broken promises of #MeToo, and a paean to finding life after death.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jamie Hood is the author of how to be a good girl, one of Vogue's Best Books of 2020, and regards, marcel, a monthly newsletter on Proust and other miscellany. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Baffler, Bookforum, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, The Drift, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 059368608X
• ISBN 13: 9780593686089
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 337
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia