I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir

by Toni McNaron

Overview

"Represents a new generation of women's writing, one in which personal histories and maternal legacies are reclaimed in the context of a feminist consciousness of the effects of class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality on the individual life.... McNaron creates a vivid, moving, and memorable account of life and a person developing in, with, and against the times."--Nancy Porter, CALYX

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558614178
Publisher:	Feminist Press at CUNY, The
Publication date:	08/15/2016
Series:	The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	216
File size:	3 MB

Editorial Reviews

"A thoughtful autobiography... grapples with the complexities of the pre-civil rights era and her own emerging sexuality." —Publishers Weekly

"Engrossing and sensitive... It moves along at the swift pace of a well-written novel." —Kirkus

"Lyrical and courageous." —Booklist

"This book will be invaluable to many audiences, both those struggling with their own coming to language and those moving from isolation to lesbian community. Its power and spirit capture with great precision the pleasures of victories, large and small, in the effort to become a complete self." —Carolyn Allen, author of Feminisms at a Millennium

"I Dwell in Possibility is an engrossingly good read in the tradition of Audre Lorde's Zami and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Toni McNaron's wonderful autobiography sensitively depicts the contradictory combination of racial privilege and sexual difference as they shape the dreams and longings of a white girl who did not fit the mold of southern belle." —Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, and H.D.'s Fiction

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