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Title Statement | On a woman's madness / Astrid Roemer ; translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott. |
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Author | Roemer, Astrid |
Additional Contributors | Scott, Lucy |
Roemer, Astrid | |
Publication | San Francisco, CA: Two Lines Press,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | 265 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781949641431 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr06860343 |
General Notes | "Originally published as Over de gekte van een vrouw"--Title page verso. "Originally published in 1982 by Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer, Haarlem ; Since 2016 published by Uitgeverij Prometheus, Amsterdam"--Title page verso. |
Languages | In English. Translated from the Dutch. |
Summary | A classic of queer literature that's as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a woman's madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing. When her abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, Noenka flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America's tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo. Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by the passionate romances of the present but haunted by society's expectations and her ancestral past. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Abused women--Fiction |
Bisexual women--Fiction | |
Divorce--Fiction | |
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction | |
Intimate partner violence--Fiction | |
Lesbians--Fiction | |
Newlyweds--Fiction | |
Patriarchy--Fiction | |
Racism--Fiction | |
Rape--Fiction | |
Runaway women--Fiction | |
By Location | Paramaribo (Suriname)--Fiction |
By Genre | Lesbian fiction |
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