{"product_id":"book-of-mutter-semiotexte-native-agents","title":"Book of Mutter","description":"\u003cp\u003eComposed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's \u003cem\u003eBook of Mutter \u003c\/em\u003eis 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. \u003cem\u003eBook of Mutter \u003c\/em\u003eis both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text spirals out into a kind of fractured anatomy of melancholy that comes to contain critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha , Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modelled 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeither memoir, essay, nor poetry, \u003cem\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/em\u003e is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem\/postmodern theater.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Zambreno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964224368687,"sku":"9781584351962","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781584351962.jpg?v=1771325943","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/book-of-mutter-semiotexte-native-agents","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}