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Man Alive (eBook)

A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
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2014
172 Seiten
City Lights Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-87286-651-5 (ISBN)

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Man Alive - Thomas  Page McBee
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Far from a titillating transgender tell-all, here is a personal yet universal story of charting one's course to ultimate self-recognition.

Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary AwardsBest Books of 2014 - Publishers WeeklyBest Books of 2014 - NPR BooksBest Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews10 Best Transgender Non-Fiction Books - Advocate"e;Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive hurtled through my life. I read it in a matter of hours. It's a confession, it's a poem, it's a time warp, it's a brilliant work of art. I bow down to McBeehis humility, his sense of humor, his insightfulness, his structural deftness, his ability to put into words what is often said but rarely, with such visceral clarity and beauty, communicated."e;Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers and The Uses of EnchantmentWhat does it really mean to be a man?In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life&mash;one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past, and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.Man Alive engages an extraordinary personal story to tell a universal onehow we all struggle to create ourselves, and how this struggle often requires risks. Far from a transgender transition tell-all, Man Alive grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility.Praise for Man Alive:"e;Man Alive is a sweet, tender hurt of a memoir ... about forgiveness and self-discovery, but mostly it's about love, so much love. McBee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive."e;Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and An Untamed State"e;Thomas Page McBee's story of how he came to claim both his past and his future is by turns despairing and hopeful, exceptional and relatable. To read it is to witness the birth of a fuller, truer self. I loved this book."e;Ann Friedman, columnist, New York Magazine"e;'Whoever's child I am, my body belongs to me,' McBee writes, and his book is an elegant, generous transcription of the journey toward this incandescent, non-aggrandized, life-sustaining form of self-possessionthe kind that emanates from dispossession, rather than running from it."e;Maggie Nelson, author of Bluets and The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning"e;Well aware that memory and identity rarely follow a linear path, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer the question, 'What does it really mean to be a man?' Weaving past and present to do so, the book's journey connects violence, masculinity and forgiveness. McBee has an intelligent heart, and it beats in every sentence of this gorgeous book."e;Saeed Jones, author of Prelude to Bruise"e;Exquisitely written and bristling with emotion, this important book reminds us of how much vulnerability and violence inheres to any identity. A real achievement of form and narrative.'Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure

lt;div>Thomas Page McBee writes the column "Self-Made Man" for The Rumpus, and his writings on gender have appeared in The New York Times and via TheAtlantic.com, VICE, BuzzFeed, and Salon. Thomas gives lectures on masculinity and media narratives across the country. He lives in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2014
Reihe/Serie City Lights/Sister Spit
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Familie / Erziehung
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Wirtschaft
Schlagworte Best Book of the Year • Lambda Literary Awards • LGBTQ+ • Memoir • Transgender • transgender writer • Wellcome Book Prize
ISBN-10 0-87286-651-3 / 0872866513
ISBN-13 978-0-87286-651-5 / 9780872866515
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