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The Resource In the darkroom, Susan Faludi

In the darkroom, Susan Faludi

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""In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things--obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness." So begins Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who claimed to be "a complete woman now" connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father's many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful--and virulent--nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals. Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's reinvented self takes her across borders--historical, political, religious, sexual--to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you "choose," or is it the very thing you can't escape?"--
Language
eng
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1 online resource (1 sound file)
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Electronic audio file
Contents
  • Returns and departures
  • Rear window
  • The original from the copy
  • Home insecurity
  • The person you were meant to be
  • It's not me anymore
  • His body into pieces. Hers.
  • On the altar of the homeland
  • Ráday 9
  • Something more and something other
  • A lady is a lady whatever the case may be
  • The mind is a black box
  • Learn to forget
  • Some kind of psychic disturbance
  • The Grand Hotel Royal
  • Smitten in the hinder parts
  • The subtle poison of adjustment
  • You're out of the woods
  • The transformation of the patient is without a doubt
  • Pity, O God, the Hungarian
  • All the female steps
  • Paid up
  • Getting away with it
  • The pregnancy of the world
  • Escape
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9781504789295
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In the darkroom
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In the darkroom
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Susan Faludi
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Language
eng
Summary
""In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things--obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness." So begins Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who claimed to be "a complete woman now" connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father's many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful--and virulent--nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals. Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's reinvented self takes her across borders--historical, political, religious, sexual--to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you "choose," or is it the very thing you can't escape?"--
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Faludi, Susan
Dewey number
818/.603
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LC call number
PN4874.F385
LC item number
A3 2016
Literary text for sound recordings
autobiography
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Read by Laurel Lefkow
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  • Lefkow, Laurel
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  • Faludi, Susan
  • Women journalists
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Sex change
  • Male-to-female transsexuals
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In the darkroom, Susan Faludi
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Electronic audio file
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digital storage
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Returns and departures -- Rear window -- The original from the copy -- Home insecurity -- The person you were meant to be -- It's not me anymore -- His body into pieces. Hers. -- On the altar of the homeland -- Ráday 9 -- Something more and something other -- A lady is a lady whatever the case may be -- The mind is a black box -- Learn to forget -- Some kind of psychic disturbance -- The Grand Hotel Royal -- Smitten in the hinder parts -- The subtle poison of adjustment -- You're out of the woods -- The transformation of the patient is without a doubt -- Pity, O God, the Hungarian -- All the female steps -- Paid up -- Getting away with it -- The pregnancy of the world -- Escape
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  • unknown
  • not applicable
Extent
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Form of item
online
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not applicable
Isbn
9781504789295
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(electronic audio bk.)
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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4b1c6f5c-3eb7-4ab9-b1da-e96d0dce3433
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sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • remote
  • other
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unknown
System control number
  • (OCoLC)957644465
  • (OCoLC)ocn957644465
  • 1275068
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable
Label
In the darkroom, Susan Faludi
Link
Publication
Note
Electronic audio file
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Returns and departures -- Rear window -- The original from the copy -- Home insecurity -- The person you were meant to be -- It's not me anymore -- His body into pieces. Hers. -- On the altar of the homeland -- Ráday 9 -- Something more and something other -- A lady is a lady whatever the case may be -- The mind is a black box -- Learn to forget -- Some kind of psychic disturbance -- The Grand Hotel Royal -- Smitten in the hinder parts -- The subtle poison of adjustment -- You're out of the woods -- The transformation of the patient is without a doubt -- Pity, O God, the Hungarian -- All the female steps -- Paid up -- Getting away with it -- The pregnancy of the world -- Escape
Dimensions
  • unknown
  • not applicable
Extent
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Form of item
online
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781504789295
Isbn Type
(electronic audio bk.)
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
4b1c6f5c-3eb7-4ab9-b1da-e96d0dce3433
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • remote
  • other
Speed
unknown
System control number
  • (OCoLC)957644465
  • (OCoLC)ocn957644465
  • 1275068
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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