Unspeakable [electronic resource] : The Things We Cannot Say
Shawcross, Harriet2019
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'Extremely affecting' Scotsman As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language. From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?
Main title:
Unspeakable [electronic resource] : The Things We Cannot Say / Harriet Shawcross
Author:
Shawcross, Harriet, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2019
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Harriet Shawcross is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She obtained an MA in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize. Unspeakable is her first book.
ISBN:
9781786890061
Language:
English
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BRN:
2838370
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