Name: Everything I Never Wanted to Know
ISBN: 9780814258620

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Everything I Never Wanted to Know

Christine Hume

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"A dauntless and harrowing indictment of patriarchal violence." --Publishers Weekly In Everything I Never Wanted to Know, Christine Hume confronts the stigma and vulnerability of women's bodies in the US. She explores bodily autonomy and sexual assault alongside the National Sex Offender Registry in order to invoke not solutions but a willingness to complicate our ideas of justice and defend every human's right to be treated like a member of the community. Feminist autobiography threads into historical narrative and cultural criticism about the Victorian-era Frozen Charlotte doll; the Nylon Riots of the 1940s; the movie Halloween; Larry Nassar, who practiced in Hume's home state of Michigan; and other material. In these reflections on sexuality, gender, criminality, and violence, Hume asks readers to reconsider what we have collectively normalized and how we are each complicit, writing through the darkness of what we don't want to see, what we'd rather not believe, and what some of us have long tried to forget.

Book Details

Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Publish Date: Mar 23rd, 2023
Pages: 200
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.43in - 5.43in - 0.63in - 0.57lb
EAN: 9780814258620
Categories: • Essays• Sexual Assault• Women

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About the Author

Christine Hume is Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of several books, including Saturation Project and Shot.

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"It is not that Christine Hume’s 'Everything I Never Wanted to Know' maps a way out of this dilemma, but she does recognize the terrains. And that is part of what makes this book feel so mesmerizingly articulate," Juliana Spahr reviews. https://t.co/3eeqP7UiRY

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#WritersRecommend: “Moving forward, whether walking or writing, depends on lateral deviations, delays, ruptures, incoherencies, tiny plummets, and constant repetition,” says Christine Hume, author of Everything I Never Wanted to Know (@ohiostatepress). https://t.co/AdDoVZml5m https://t.co/fOLM2m5EV5

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"Christine Hume brings a poet's precision and artfulness to every subject she tackles, but Everything I Never Wanted to Know feels like her greatest work yet. Every dark corner of American suburbia is on trial here through lenses personal, anthropological, sociopolitical, and even metaphysical. What emerges is a work unlike any other--this book altered me and my expectations of literature." --Porochista Khakpour, author of Brown Album

"Christine Hume delivers a unique blend of journalism that is deeply embedded in lived experience and life-writing that interrogates the political and bodily contexts in which both writing and life occur. There is inherent sadness in learning what one never wanted to know and great triumph in the self-actualization and liberation Hume finds there." --Kazim Ali, author of Inquisition

"Provocative and intelligent ... gives voice to the many ways females (and other marginalized people) are stripped of their power by (White) male misogyny. A thoughtfully disturbing, sharp sociological study." --Kirkus

"A dauntless and harrowing indictment of patriarchal violence." --Publishers Weekly

"Using personal experience, history (the 1940s Nylon Riots), and current events (Larry Nasser), Hume weaves meandering, compelling, erudite essays firmly based in feminism.... For any and all readers ready to work their brains around serious issues." --Kathy Sexton, Booklist

"Mesmerizingly articulate ... Everything I Never Wanted to Know is a collection of essays that combine the analytical, lyrical, and experimental to explore the continued resonances and limitations of the discussion around sexual predation. Nothing is simple in this book, and there are no heroes." --Juliana Spahr, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Everything I Never Wanted to Know asks us to sit with our discomfort and question our impulse to turn away as well as embrace our capacity to go on anyway. [It] performs a gesture more potent than catharsis: a reckoning ... The ultimate hope Hume offers readers isn't the empty promise of a solution, but the steadfast awareness that another way is always possible." --Elizabeth Hall, Full Stop

"In her essays, Hume writes with a discerning and complicating gaze ... [Her] book does not answer any questions, for the questions are not neat ... It imagines what it might mean to not only look at the dynamics of gender, violence, and criminality, but to actually process what we've seen." --Ilana Bean, Cleveland Review of Books

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