College Girl - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Laura Gray-Rosendale is President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Director of S.T.A.R. English, and Professor of English at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of seven books, including College Girl: A Memoir and Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation (coedited with Gil Harootunian), both also published by SUNY Press, and Rethinking Basic Writing: Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in Interaction . Klappentext The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor. Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Book of the Year Gold Medalist, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle / Health Issues) category Finalist for the 2013 May Sarton Memoir Award presented by the Story Circle Network Award-Winning Finalist in the Autobiography/Memoirs category of The 2013 USA Best Book Awards, sponsored by USA Book News2013 In College Girl , a university professor revisits the memory of a brutal sexual assault and recounts her long, circuitous route from trauma to recovery. Offering present-day reflections alongside the fresh, hopeful voice of the twenty-year-old student she once was, Laura Gray-Rosendale tells the story of her near destruction and her family's disintegration, but also one of abiding friendships and shining hope. In the end, College Girl is also a story about stories, and a meditation on memoir itself. Gray-Rosendale writes in a tone that is simply unforgettable-gritty, humorous, and raw. Artfully written and devoid of self-pity, College Girl is a rich story of triumph, hope, and survival.

Product details

• Authors: GRAY ROSENDALE LAURA, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Gray-Rosendale Laura
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2013
• EAN: 9781438447094
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-4709-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Excelsior Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, EDUCATION / Administration / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Teaching staff, Gender studies: women and girls, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Violence and abuse in society, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs