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Mendings (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,383
Discovery Miles 23 830
Mendings (Hardcover): Megan Sweeney

Mendings (Hardcover)

Megan Sweeney

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Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her childhood entanglement with her mother, her loss-filled relationship with her alcoholic father, and her attachment to the clothes that have mended her as she has mended them. Sweeney explores how clothing fosters communication and enables us to cultivate relationships with ourselves and with others, both living and deceased. In dialogue with other clothing lovers, writers, fiber artists, evolutionary biologists, historians, and environmentalists, Sweeney also foregrounds the entwinement of clothing, race, and gender as she considers the ethics and environmental effects of clothing consumption, the history of clothing in the US prison system, and the roles that textiles play as sources of creativity, artistry, and self-fashioning, even within conditions of constraint. For Sweeney, the act of mending is a way of living. Unlike fixing, which leaves no trace of damage or loss, mending allows Sweeney to embrace holes, rips, and threadbare patches as part of her life’s design.

General

Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2023
First published: 2023
Authors: Megan Sweeney
Dimensions: 254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1646-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > General
LSN: 1-4780-1646-9
Barcode: 9781478016465

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