Emilie Pine

"In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, Emilie Pine writes about all the things she shouldn't say."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes to Self

Ruth and Pen

Emilie Pine bu baş döndürücü ilk kitabında hayatında iz bırakan olaylarla konuşuyor; toplum olarak konuşacak dili yeterince geliştiremediğimiz, acı tatlı, gizli kapaklı, aynı zamanda sıradan olaylar bunlar. Kısırlık, alkolik bir ebeveynle ilgilenmek, kadınların bedenleri ve acıları çevresindeki tabular, cinsel şiddet ve kendine şiddet gibi dile getirilmez konuları radikal dürüstlüğüyle anlatıyor, kadınların sessizliğini tercih eden topluma cesaretle isyan ediyor. Bir kadının hikâyesi bu, aynı zamanda tüm kadınların hikâyesi. Kahredici, dokunaklı, bilgelik ve sevinç dolu bir kitap Kendime Notlar.

Kendime Notlar

Essays

Persoonlijk en moedig verhaal over de beleving van de auteur van de problemen in haar leven, zoals haar alcoholische vader, de scheiding van haar ouders, aanranding en onvruchtbaarheid, en hoe zij daarmee is omgegaan.

Alles wat ik niet kan zeggen

Allt jag inte kan säga

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF Dublin, 7 October 2019 One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for them, to be with themselves? Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants. Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.

Ruth & Pen

Noter til mig selv

eseji

Pišem sebi

En Todo lo que no puedo decir, Emilie Pine nos trae seis relatos autobiográficos que quieren romper el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente de placer y de dolor. «No leas este libro en público: te hará llorar.» Anne Enright Cuando Emilie Pine le dijo a su madre que quería escribir un libro de ensayos autobiográficos, ella le preguntó de qué tratarían. "Sobre alcoholismo, abortos, violaciones, depresión y silencio. Y también sobre encontrar fuerzas, trabajar duro y aprender a alzar la voz." Su madre entendió por qué su hija quería escribir ese libro, pero ¿publicarlo? Sin duda. Publicarlo porque nunca antes ha sido tan necesaria esta exploración sobre todo aquello que las mujeres supuestamente deben esconder: la adicción, la ira, la violencia sexual, la euforia, la sensualidad y el amor. Pine escribe con una sinceridad radical sobre acontecimientos que durante cuarenta años no había admitido ni siquiera ante sí misma: el alcoholismo de su padre, su imposibilidad de quedarse embarazada, violaciones y adicciones. Esta es su historia, pero es también un golpe contra el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente y recipiente de dolor y placer. Si nuestro cuerpo pudiera contar su historia, ¿de qué hablaría? Hablaría de sangre, del dolor de la sangre sucia, de la sangre que no debe mostrarse jamás. Hablaría de la angustia de no dar la talla, de callar siempre creyendo que eso mejorará las cosas. Este es un libro devastador, sabio y alegre. Un tratado sobre lo que significa estar viva, un acto de rebelión contra una sociedad que se siente más cómoda silenciando a las mujeres. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide--from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love. WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR * "Emilie Pine''s voice is razor-sharp and raw; her story is utterly original yet as familiar as my own breath."--Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her life--those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. This is the story of one woman, and of all women. Devastating, poignant, and wise--and joyful against the odds--Notes to Self is an unforgettable exploration of what it feels like to be alive, and a daring act of rebellion against a society that is more comfortable with women''s silence. Praise for Notes to Self "Notes to Self begins as a deceptively simple catalogue of the injustices of modern female life and slyly emerges as a screaming treatise on just what it means to make your own rules, turning the hand you''ve been dealt into the coolest game in town. Emilie Pine is like your best friend--if your best friend was so sharp she drew blood."--Lena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl "To read these essays is to understand the human condition more clearly, to reassess one''s place in the world, and to reclaim one''s own experiences as real and valid."--Sunday Independent "Harrowing, clear-eyed . . . Everyone should consider [this] priority reading."--Sunday Business Post "Incredible and insightful--an absolute must-read."--The Skinny "Agonizing, uncompromising, starkly brilliant. . . . [A] short, gleamingly instructive book, both memoir and psychological exploration--a platform for that insistent internal voice that almost any woman . . . wishes they had ignored."--Financial Times "Do not read this book in public. It will make you cry."--Anne Enright

Todo Lo Que No Puedo Decir / Notes to Self

Botschaften an mich selbst

Un solo giorno, una sola città, due donne alla ricerca del loro posto nel mondo.

Ruth e Pen

Dublin, 7 October 2019 One day, one city, two women- Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions- how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for them, to be with themselves? Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants. Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.

Mary McAuliffe

Miriam Haughton

This collection raises incisive questions about the links between the postcolonial carceral system, which thrived in Ireland after 1922, and larger questions of gender, sexuality, identity, class, race and religion. This kind of intersectional history is vital not only in looking back but, in looking forward, to identify the ways in which structural callousness still marks Irish society. Essays include historical analysis of the ways in which women and children were incarcerated in residential institutions, Ireland’s Direct Provision system, the policing of female bodily autonomy though legislation on prostitution and abortion, in addition to the legacies of the Magdalen laundries. This collection also considers how artistic practice and commemoration have acted as vital interventions in social attitudes and public knowledge, helping to create knowledge and re-shape social attitudes towards this history.

Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state

Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries

Sei confessioni in un'unica voce, la cui gioia liberatoria affiora, in filigrana, dalla trama delle parole. Con questo libro che le è valso il prestigioso Irish Book Award, Emilie Pine scosta il velo dallo specchio, si guarda, e si racconta con la forza di chi ha deciso di indagare se stessa infischiandosene dell'approvazione altrui. Dalle difficoltà relazionali con un padre amato e odiato, all'esperienza cruda dell'infertilità, alla fame imposta al proprio corpo di adolescente, fino al corpo, ancora lui, violato dalla prepotenza degli uomini: in queste pagine non trovate sguardi accomodanti ma parole come frecce imbevute di onestà e fierezza. Scava con foga, Emilie, nei ricordi. E dagli angoli bui della clandestinità emotiva ecco venire alla luce un autoritratto schietto e tagliente, una voce pronta a dettare le sue regole, figlie di una storia personale ma in cui ogni donna potrà riconoscere una caduta, o una vittoria, comunque la stessa, appassionata strada percorsa.

Appunti per me stessa

Magdalen history has long been marginalised in public discourse. Even as women's activism and contributions are included in new histories of the revolutionary era, the lives of women regarded as marginal are still excluded. This collection examines the ways in which Magdalen history can contribute to a much more nuanced and inclusive understanding of how we narrativize post-independence Irish history.

Commemoration, Gender, and the Postcolonial Carceral State

This volume reflects on the pressing questions for Irish literary studies now. Contributors challenge prevailing assumptions within the field, seek to displace the canon, and define alternative paths. From queer studies to transnationalism, from #MeToo to the politics of representing disability, this collection opens up the institution of Irish criticism and considers the ethical challenges and opportunities for scholars working in the field today from concerns with identity politics to questions of form. Moreover, the collection reflects on where we have come from and the development of Irish studies both in the Irish University Review and internationally in Asia, Australasia, Europe, and South America.

Irish University Review, Volume 50

Irish Studies Now

Fionnuala Dillane

Naomi McAreavey

This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain – whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated – is culturally coded. Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland that features in all of the essays gathered here. This collection offers new paradigms for understanding Ireland’s literary and cultural history.

The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture

What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and why do performances prioritize some memories over others? What does it mean to create, rehearse, perform, and purchase the theatricalization of memory? The Memory Marketplace shows this transaction to be particularly fraught in the theatricalization of traumatic moments of cultural upheaval, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. In these performances, the role of empathy becomes key within the marketplace dynamic, and Pine argues that this empathy shapes the kinds of witnesses created. The complexities and nuances of this exchange--subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified--provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.

Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre

The Memory Marketplace

Ein radikal aufrichtiges Debüt. Der Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Irland: Emilie Pine spricht wie niemand sonst darüber, was es heißt, im 21. Jahrhundert eine Frau zu sein. Es ist das Buch einer ganzen Generation. Ein Buch über Geburt und Tod, sexuelle Gewalt und Gewalt gegen sich selbst, weiblichen Schmerz, Trauer und Infertilität. Es ist ein Buch über den alkoholkranken Vater, über Tabus des weiblichen Körpers. Und es ist trotz allem ein Buch über Freude, Befriedigung und Glück – unbändig, mutig, und absolut außergewöhnlich erzählt.

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