Feminist autofiction from one of Swedens blazing talents.Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literarydetective work spanning centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned on an island inthe Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother becomes captivated by the image of Margueritesheltered in a dark cave after her companions have died.This image soon becomes an obsession. She must find out the real story of thewoman she calls the Bear Woman. But so much in this history is written so as togloss over male violence. And the maps and other sources she consults are attimes undecipherable.Karolina Ramqvist explores what it means to write historyand to live it.
المزيد من الكتب الإلكترونية من نفس المؤلف (المؤلفين) / محرر
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