{"product_id":"9781948980296","title":"The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We are supposed to know where we are with biography and autobiography, they are the literary equivalents of the portrait and the self-portrait,” writes Jeanette Winterson about Gertrude Stein’s 1932 classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e. By narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, Stein invented a literary form that was both intimate and uncanny, blurring lines of authority and identity as it winds through a story of two women living and loving together through a tumultuous moment in history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlmost a century later, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein’s project to tell another story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration in a differently discordant age. At heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao’s life journey from Vietnam during the war and her own troubled history as a gender-queer Taiwanese American, Lin’s \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e draws in subjects as varied as photography, tropical fruit, New York real estate, and queer theorist Eve Sedgewick’s eyeglasses, weaving a landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 224 pages | 5.50\" x 7.00\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lana Lin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007091818728,"sku":"9781948980296x","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/m_-_2025-01-28T032423.796.jpg?v=1738052670","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781948980296","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}