I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter

by Anna Camilleri

Book Overview

A woman in a red dress conjures particular images, emotions and stereotypes. Eroticism. Lust. Passion. With I Am a Red Dress , acclaimed writer and performer Anna Camilleri confronts these images and stereotypes in essays, stories, and poetry. Combining the political with the intensely personal, Camilleri's intimate writings are premised on a search for selfhood--strong, queer, female--within and outside of her bonds to other women in her family...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551521636
• ISBN13: 9781551521633
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.0"