Bloody Woman, 9781988587998
Paperback
Samoan womanhood in diaspora: complex, personal essays forging new paths.

Bloody Woman

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  • Paperback

    200 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 2021

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Summary

Bloody Woman: Essays on Identity, Womanhood, and the Samoan Diaspora

‘Bloody Woman gives voice to my lived experience, to the overlooked, to the underrepresented and to the exceptionally complex, multifaceted and contradictory experience of being a woman.’

This wayfinding set of essays explores the overlap of being Samoan and a woman, as experienced ‘from diaspora’, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contempo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781988587998
ISBN-10:1988587999
Author:Lana Lopesi
Publisher:Bridget Williams Books
Imprint:Bridget Williams Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:200
Release Date:14 November 2021
Weight:260g
Dimensions:23mm x 229mm x 222mm
About The Author

Lana Lopesi

Lana Lopesi is an author, art critic, editor and multidisciplinary researcher based in Tamaki Makaurau. Since 2012 Lana has published extensively on New Zealand art and culture in local and international publications including Metro magazine, the Pantograph Punch, Bulletin, Art New Zealand, the Spinoff, and Paperboy, among many others. Her writing has also been included in books such as Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm, Crafting Aotearoa (Te Papa Press) and Say Something: Jacqueline Fahey (Christchurch Art Gallery). In 2018 Lana published her debut book False Divides (BWB Texts) and in 2019 she co-edited the book Transits and Returns (Vancouver Art Gallery; Institute of Modern Art).

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