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Alice Bolin

Dead Girls

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographical
Best of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe,The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric Lit
A New York Times Editor's Choice, a best of summer 2018 according to Bitch Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, The Millions, Esquire, Refinery29, Nylon, PopSugar, The Chicago Tribune, Book Riot, and CrimeReads
In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible, thoughtful and heartfelt, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations, and her own role as a consumer and creator.
Bolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles, dissects the Noir, revisits her own coming of age, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves, both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women — both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate.
Reminiscent of the piercing insight of Rebecca Solnit and the critical skill of Hilton Als, Bolin constructs a sharp, perceptive, and revelatory dialogue on the portrayal of women in media and their roles in our culture.
266 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • Regina Garzashared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🚀Unputdownable

    Aunque a veces se aleja del título del libro, los ensayos giran alrededor de la misma temática y la autora tiene su propia visión de la vida norteamericana. Me gustó mucho porque tiene una profundidad que no esperaba encontrar; y aunque incluye muchos elementos de la cultura popular, la literatura y el arte, el estilo no se siente pesado ni pretencioso

Quotes

  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    The tradition of the personal essay is full of self-appointed outcasts
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    Particularly disturbing are the ways that white female victims become the mascots of campaigns against “crime,” which can almost always be read as campaigns against a city’s poor and nonwhite residents
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    sixties and seventies counterculture: having been helpless children during the biggest disaster of the twentieth century, they tended to view despair not as political but existential

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