recollections of my nonexistence by rebecca solnit

Recollections of My Nonexistence connects Solnit's hugely popular polemical feminist writings of the last decade with the more lyrical, personal writing of her beloved earlier books A Field Guide to Getting Lost and The Faraway Nearby. This book is incredibly poetic, and the writing is stunning I am so inspired to read the other works of Rebecca Solnit, because the way she writes just speaks volumes to me.Recollections of My Nonexistence is soft spoken about hard hitting topics regarding PTSD surrounding womanhood, the gender violence towards women, and the social conditioning of self doubt in efforts to silence women. Her book ends with what liberated her as a person and as a writer-books themselves, the gay men and community who presented a new model of what else gender, family, and celebration could be, and her awakening to the spacious landscapes of the American west, which taught her how to write in the way she has ever since. Solnit explores the way some men attempted to erase her, to shut her up, keep her out and challenge her credibility, as well as contemplating other kinds of nonexistence of groups for gender, ethnicity, and orientation. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which to metamorphosize of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Contemplative and mesmerizing, Recollections of My Nonexistence thoughtfully charts the famous essayist’s coming of age as a thinker, activist, and writer. As with the mansplaining essay, Recollections is at its most powerful when she shares personal stories that humanize. As she writes in her book, the story of women worldwide securing equal audibility, credibility and consequence continues. Abstract: 'In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Solnit’s latest work, Recollections of My Nonexistence, is her first memoir.

Recollections of my nonexistence by rebecca solnit