Body geographic

Author/Creator:

Borich, Barrie Jean, 1959-

Publication/Creation:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013

Format:

Book

Edition:

1st ed.

More Details

Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Body geographic / Barrie Jean Borich

Series Titles:

American lives

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Borich, Barrie Jean,1959-
Borich, Barrie Jean,1959---Childhood and youth
Authors, American--20th century--Biography
Lesbian authors--United States--Biography
Self-perception in women
Women--Sexual behavior--Psychological aspects
Mind and body
Maps--Psychological aspects
Middle West--Geography--Psychological aspects
Middle West--Biography

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- LEGEND -- MAP 1 -- MAP 2 -- MAP 3 -- MAP 4 -- TRIPTIK -- UNMAPPED -- MAP 5 -- MAP 6 -- MAP 7 -- TRIPTIK -- REMAPPED -- LEGEND REINSCRIBED -- POSTMETROPOLIS.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and wheredislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate of Borich's story is Chicago, the prototypical Great Lakes port city built by immigrants like her great-grandfather Big Petar, and the other is her own port of immigration, Minneapolis, the combined skylines of these two cities tattooed on Borich's own back. Between Chicago and Minneapolis Borich maps her own Midwest, a true heartland in which she measures the distance between the dreams and realities of her own life, her family's, and her fellow travelers' in the endless American migration. Covering rough terrain-from the hardships of her immigrant ancestors to the travails of her often-drunk young self, longing to be madly awake in the world, from the changing demographics of midwestern cities to the personal transformations of coming out and living as a lesbian- Body Geographic is cartography of high literary order, plotting routes, real and imagined, and putting an alternate landscape on the map.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

General Note:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936717506002486

ISBN:

9781496210142
149621014X
9780803245464
0803245467
9781283948838
1283948834

OCLC Number:

843054053
824353866