Lisa Diedrich Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lisa Diedrich

"With echoes of the fabulist protagonist at the heart of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” book & movie, Santos has spun an elaborate web of lies & deceptions about his identity & his past..." People have read Highsmith's book, or seen the film, right??? Creepy. https://t.co/AtJklDeCJE

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bell hooks: "It is that act of speech, of 'talking back,' that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of our movement from object to subject—the liberated voice."

Lisa Diedrich

Reading Saidiya Hartman’s revised & updated SCENES OF SUBJECTION. Hartman’s new preface is called “The Hold of Slavery” & opens with an image of “temporal entanglement”: “a 345-page long sentence. This sentence would be written in the past, present, & future tense.” https://t.co/8Bde4USspn

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From Dionne Brand’s OSSUARY XI, on sitting with Jacob Lawrence’s paintings: I cried with him, held his lovely heads, his angular gentle faces as my own, his bodies, driven with intention, attack their catastrophe in gouache [Slowly reading NOMENCLATURE: NEW & COLLECTED POEMS]

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Reading Shayda Kafai’s CRIP KINSHIP: THE DISABILITY JUSTICE & ART ACTIVISM OF SINS INVALID & this sentence got me thinking about the importance of respite: “However temporary Sins Invalid’s crip-centric liberated zones are, they offer respite.”

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.@mervatim on Sontag & the feminist prehistory of queer: "Camp is the hidden nerve running through the essays in “On Women.” Initially conceived of by Sontag as apolitical, it emerges here as the privileged sensibility of a politics of feminist liberation." https://t.co/4WxCAU2wSN

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Love to see it: Judy Blume reading & recommending Maia Kobabe’s brilliant graphic memoir GENDER QUEER. https://t.co/xh2h8hu2JZ

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Sally Rooney: “The novel in English has always had a curious relationship with gender.” The Paris Review - Misreading Ulysses - The Paris Review https://t.co/77aAfIlNuD

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Now reading ORDINARY NOTES & the force of the words & images & feelings assembled & annotated is truly incredible. One intriguing tidbit & formal clue: Sharpe identifies Adrienne Kennedy’s PEOPLE WHO LED TO MY PLAYS as “one of the books whose form informs this one.”

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Reading Frank Wilderson’s AFROPESSIMISM. Wilderson quotes @JYSexton: “You better understand White people’s fantasies because tomorrow they’ll be legislation.” And then Wilderson adds: “That’s what the law is: White fantasies as objective value.”