Melnick Lynn
Melnick Lynn - I've Had To Think Up A Way To Survive On Trauma Persistence And Dolly Parton - Paperback
Melnick Lynn - I've Had To Think Up A Way To Survive On Trauma Persistence And Dolly Parton - Paperback
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Description: An ode to storytelling itself A gorgeous and heart - rending story of survival. Melissa Febos author of Girlhood 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.
Title: I've Had To Think Up A Way To Survive On Trauma Persistence And Dolly Parton
Author(s): Melnick Lynn
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9781954118478
Pages: 280 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/1/2023
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
Description: An ode to storytelling itself A gorgeous and heart - rending story of survival. Melissa Febos author of Girlhood 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.
Title: I've Had To Think Up A Way To Survive On Trauma Persistence And Dolly Parton
Author(s): Melnick Lynn
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9781954118478
Pages: 280 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/1/2023
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
