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The Court of No Record : Poems /
"The Court of No Record, a new collection of poetry by Jenny Molberg, offers testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of violence and domestic abuse. Drawing inspiration from true crime investigations and artifacts, including Frances Glessner Lee's crime scene dioramas and...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Court of No Record, a new collection of poetry by Jenny Molberg, offers testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of violence and domestic abuse. Drawing inspiration from true crime investigations and artifacts, including Frances Glessner Lee's crime scene dioramas and the tragic aftermath of two serial killers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Molberg probes a cultural obsession with violence that performs active erasure of victims' lives. The collection's second section, a genre-bending court hearing in verse, examines the way this erasure can occur inside our own justice system: "The court will open the wound, will fill it with paper," she writes. Excavating her own internalized victim blaming, Molberg interrogates the semiotic trauma a lexicon of brutality enacts on the self and on society at large. By engaging with historical texts through a personal lens, The Court of No Record sheds light on victims who do not find justice, and looks toward a future of positive systemic reformation"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (96 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807179727 |