A Manga Perfeita

In 1994, at the age of twentyfive years old, when the terrible "shattering that comes with thesexual assault "doubled deep into her body and thoughts ofsuicide were always around, Erin Manning wrote The Perfect Manga on a almost feverish state: nineteen chapters in nineteen days, a kindsel...

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Hauptverfasser:
Greiner, Christine, Filho, Ernesto, Manning, Erin
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Veröffentlicht:
punctum books 2019
Zusammenfassung:
In 1994, at the age of twentyfive years old, when the terrible "shattering that comes with thesexual assault "doubled deep into her body and thoughts ofsuicide were always around, Erin Manning wrote The Perfect Manga on a almost feverish state: nineteen chapters in nineteen days, a kindself-rescue operation where writing has become a way ofmake (and feel) life in another way. Over these nineteen days, and although not able to fully articulate to herself at the time,Manning was written inside "a composition that asks whatotherwise life could be lived. " And in the rhythms of this composition,which was also a life, Manning was and is able to decline the category andnorm and immobility of the "victim" (while still understanding the inheritancesviolence) in order to follow the more-than-myself as well as thejoy of "more than experience"Twenty-five yearsManning later allows these earlier writings to find theirway around the world, which is a way of giving "voice to theseconfused survival times "while also asking us towe share (and help support) such moments as readers,that we consider "other ways of listening to the urgency of living".Republishing the book now is giving it a place in the world in a way thathonor your strength as something that is always beyond the claim ofanyone, even from Manning. In this sense, The Perfect Manga invites us, with Manning, to be in excess of ourselves, and also to consider, in Mannings words, "as create conditions for living beyond the fierce belief of humanism thatwe, the privileged, the neurotypical, the still unscathed, thecapable bodies, is that we hold the key to all perspectives in thetheater of life ". Finally, Manning Perfect Manga and Mannings reflections on its composition ask us to consider "living in the fierce celebration of a world invented by these ways of life thattear the white, neurotypical colonial fabric of life as theWe know
Umfang:
1 electronic resource (166 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Portuguese
ISBN:
9781950192595
9781950192601
Zugangseinschränkungen:
Open Access
Schlagworte:
History (General)
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