Mendings

Megan Sweeney (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1910-7 (ISBN)

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Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her childhood entanglement with her mother, her loss-filled relationship with her alcoholic father, and her attachment to the clothes that have mended her as she has mended them. Sweeney explores how clothing fosters communication and enables us to cultivate relationships with ourselves and with others, both living and deceased. In dialogue with other clothing lovers, writers, fiber artists, evolutionary biologists, historians, and environmentalists, Sweeney also foregrounds the entwinement of clothing, race, and gender as she considers the ethics and environmental effects of clothing consumption, the history of clothing in the US prison system, and the roles that textiles play as sources of creativity, artistry, and self-fashioning, even within conditions of constraint. For Sweeney, the act of mending is a way of living. Unlike fixing, which leaves no trace of damage or loss, mending allows Sweeney to embrace holes, rips, and threadbare patches as part of her life’s design.

Megan Sweeney is Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons and editor of The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading.

A Note on Ornaments ix
Piecing. A Prologue 1
1. Selvedge 10
2. Salvage 75
3. Redress 113
4. Threads 137
5. Mending 177
Hem. Acknowledgments 209
Notes 213
Bibliography 223
Index 231

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	81 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-1910-7 / 1478019107
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1910-7 / 9781478019107
Zustand	Neuware