Description
unMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving together intersectionalities and intertextualities. Author Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, a biracial LGBTQIA+ Nisei who was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, to a non-native-English-speaking Issei mother, considers not only the tensions in the rifts between intersectional identities (biracial Nisei, LGBTQIA+) but also the tensions between marginalized identities and the landscapes and cultures of the American West; the tensions between nonnative, second, erased, and/or forgotten languages; and the tensions between those who abuse and those who survive. These rifts, intersections, and fractures, while frequently a source of violence and immense grief, are also a source of illumination and clarity. The essays in this collection are written almost entirely in hybrid/lyric forms–oftentimes braided, oftentimes patchworked, oftentimes segmented–reflecting some of the fractured complexities and intersections of Horikoshi Roripaugh’s own hybrid identities.
Author: Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 9/15/2025
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.7 lbs
Size: 8.4″ H x 5.7″ L x 1.1″ W
ISBN: 9780820374413
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.