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Prologue - 12
• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House. Graywolf Press, 2019.
• The memoir, at its core, is an act of resurrection.
• Memoirists re-create the past and reconstruct dialogue. They summon meaning from events that have long been dormant.
• The memoir is written in second person narration.
• With her memoir, Machado enters into the archive that domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity is both possible and not uncommon, to speak into the silence.
• Machado clarifies to readers that the Dream House was a real place; it was next to a forest and at the rim of a sward.
• It had a foundation, though rumors of the dead buried within it are a fiction.
• The landlord was not a man but an entire university.
• Machado repeats to readers that it is important to remember...
This section contains 12,674 words (approx. 43 pages at 300 words per page) |
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