LEADER 03685oam 22006614a 450 001 9910372745103321 005 20240328134742.0 010 $a1-950192-68-7 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0282.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000010138574 035 $a(OAPEN)1006797 035 $a(OCoLC)1154840071 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87241 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38952 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010138574 100 $a20200423h20202020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAural History$fGila Ashtor 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2020 210 1$a[Santa Barbara, California] ;$aEarth, Milky Way :$cpunctum books,$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (315 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781950192670 327 $aD (David) -- P (Prince) -- K (King). 330 $aAural History is an anti-memoir memoir of encountering devastating grief that uses experimental storytelling to recreate the winding, fractured path of loss and transformation. Written by a thirty-something psychotherapist and queer theorist, Aural History is structured as a sequence of three sections that each use different narrative styles to represent a distinctive stage in the protagonist's evolving relationship to trauma. Aural History explores how a cascade of self-dissolving losses crisscrosses a girl's coming of age. Through lyric prose, the first section follows a precocious tomboy whose fierce attachment to her father forces her, when he dies and she is twelve years old, to run the family bakery business, raise a delinquent younger brother, and take care of a destructive, volatile mother. In part two, scenes narrated in the third person illustrate a high-achieving high school student who is articulate and in control except for bouts of sudden and inchoate attractions, the first of which is to her severe and coaxing English teacher. The third story tells of her relation with a riveting, world-famous professor, interspersed with a tragic-comic series of dialogues between the protagonist and a cast of diverse psychotherapists as she, now twenty-five years old and living in New York City, undertakes an odyssey to understand why true self-knowledge remains elusive and her real feelings, choked and incomplete. In what Phillip Lopate calls "an amazing document," Aural History pushes the narrative conventions of memoir to capture a story the genre of memoir usually struggles to tell: that you can lose yourself, and have no way to know it. 606 $aPsychoanalysts$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01081287 606 $aSelf-knowledge, Theory of 606 $aDissociation (Psychology) 606 $aPsychoanalysts$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPsychotherapists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aYoung women$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aAutobiographies. 608 $aAutobiographies. 608 $aBiographies. 610 $apsychoanalysis 610 $aqueer theory 610 $atrauma 610 $amemoir 610 $atherapy 610 $achildhood 615 0$aPsychoanalysts. 615 0$aSelf-knowledge, Theory of. 615 0$aDissociation (Psychology) 615 0$aPsychoanalysts 615 0$aPsychotherapists 615 0$aYoung women 700 $aAshtor$b Gila$0898045 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910372745103321 996 $aAural history$92006386 997 $aUNINA