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dc.contributor.authorRich, Sara A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-20T11:55:30Z
dc.date.available2021-08-20T11:55:30Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50495
dc.description.abstract"No one thinks straight. At least no one remembers straight. But ten years ago, things were different, weren’t they? Roland Barthes once wrote that color in a photograph is like make-up on a corpse. No one is fooled. In anarchic denial of convenient truths, a young international couple meet and marry on a small Mediterranean island. Ten years later, the couple separate in part due to complications with immigration laws. Following this transcontinental rupture, fragmented histories emerge in response to the woman’s encounters with a series of color snapshots. There is death here, familiar to the mourner, as the photographs issue their special powers to magically and auspiciously predict the future and simultaneously to permit the return of the dead. The woman recognizes pieces of herself as past objects indexed within photographic stills, but paradoxically, she is present, outside in this chaos trying not to fall apart. The images and their objects yawn to remind us of the reluctant destiny of all our beloved memories, bodies, and things: that is, to disintegrate. Borrowing its title from a passage in The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, Closer to Dust is a séance, a gathering of invitees: inherently biased elegies, the images that conjured them, and the reader- viewer in attendance who is warmly invited to order these intimate fragments into cohesion."en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNC Memoirsen_US
dc.subject.otherautobiography;creative nonfiction;divorce;immigration;international relationships;marriage;photographyen_US
dc.titleCloser to Dust
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.53288/0324.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781953035769
oapen.collectionScholarLeden_US
oapen.imprintTiny Collections
oapen.pages108en_US
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NYen_US


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