This work demonstrates a multifaceted approach to autobiographical writing by those the dominant deem other than themselves. Focusing on four major texts of multiculturalism, the author examines how they each represent the self as unique, as collectively othered, and as inclusively human, and how these opposing aspects of selfhood interact. Rusk also analyzes the strategies that the writers speak about to their multiple, divided audiences. For these authors, articulating a life experience and a selfhood more complex than society admits, is an act of repudiation and transgression that bursts...
This work demonstrates a multifaceted approach to autobiographical writing by those the dominant deem other than themselves. Focusing on four major te...
"Pictures in the Firestorm" is wide in scope, luminous in detail, and elegant in craft. Lauren Rusk's mastery of nuance and tone allows her to write with equal grace about 1960s San Francisco and about the enduring challenge and grief of a Holocaust museum. Her poems range from evocative glimpses of the momentary to complex meditations on art and its relationship to the world. Rusk's passion for visual art includes the sometimes difficult history of its making; her subtle wit and intelligence move in and out of the frame, always with one eye on the world outside the gallery, where too...
"Pictures in the Firestorm" is wide in scope, luminous in detail, and elegant in craft. Lauren Rusk's mastery of nuance and tone allows her to writ...
