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Mother of Stories: An Elegy

Mother of Stories: An Elegy

Dailey, Alice

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Literary CriticismDeath & DyingGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 153150647X
ISBN13: 9781531506476
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Jul 2 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In a breathtaking blend of lyrical memoir, photographs, and textual artifacts, Mother of Stories examines the complex legacy of a mother who was a gifted teacher, a passionate reader, and a pathological liar.

While Alice Dailey was immersed in an academic study of death in Shakespeare's history plays, her mother died from toxic exposure to mold. Composed in a fugue of grief, Mother of Stories is Dailey's uncompromising account of the months before and after her mother's death. Through varied forms of episodic and visual recreation, Mother of Stories confronts what it means to inherit violent family narratives and, in their wake, to have to reconceive the borders between lived, imaginary, and literary experience.

A hybrid, richly imaginative work that synthesizes past and present, counterfeit and real, Mother of Stories oscillates between the inescapable weight of history and the cathartic liberation of art and storytelling. In constructing a poetic assemblage reminiscent at once of medieval miscellanies and contemporary experimental autotheory, Dailey's acts of rehearsing, cutting, and folding history generate forms of radical critique that puncture and reconstitute the limits of literary nonfiction.

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