Blueberries / Ellena Savage.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2020.Description: 240 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922268563
- Savage, Ellena
- Savage, Ellena
- 2000-2099
- Autobiographies
- Women authors, Australian -- Miscellanea
- Women authors, Australian -- Biography
- Identity (Psychology)
- Memory
- Feminism
- Social classes
- Women -- Australia -- Biography
- Australian essays -- 21st century
- Australian essays -- 21st century -- Collections
- Women authors, Australian -- 21st century -- Biography
- Women authors, Australian
- Women authors, Australian -- Anecdotes
- Essays
- Australian
- A824.4 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 824.4 SAV | Available | 061760 |
"What kind of body makes a memoir?" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238)
Yellow city -- Blueberries -- The museum of rape -- Satellite -- Allen Ginsberg -- Unwed teen mum Mary -- Holidays with men -- Your dirty phony saint and martyr - Friendship between women -- The literature of sadness -- Turning thirty -- Houses -- Notes to unlived time -- Portrait of the writer as worker (after Dieter Lesage) -- Antimemoir, as in, fuck you (as in, fuck me)
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an artist. It is both a memoir and an interrogation of memoir. It is a new horizon in storytelling. In crystalline prose, Savage explores the essential questions of the examined life: What is it to desire? What is it to accommodate oneself to the world? And at what cost?
