Autobiography of a Wound

Kirjan Autobiography of a Wound (2018) on kirjoittanut Brynne Rebele-Henry. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut University of Pittsburgh Press. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 96 sivua ja se on nidottu.

In ancient fertility carvings, artists would drill holes into the woman’s body to signify penetrability, which is the basis of Autobiography of a Wound: allowing those wounds and puncture marks to speak through the fertility figures. The wounds are chronicled through letters and poems addressed to F (F stands for the fertility carvings themselves, which are being addressed as one unified deity), and A (Aphrodite, who is being referenced as a general deity of womanhood, a figurine that reappears throughout the poems, and a symbol that is referenced or portrayed in almost every fertility figurine or carving). Autobiography of a Wound reconstructs the narrative surrounding female pathos and the idea of the hysteric girl.