Dianne Dugaw

Broschiertes Buch

California Medieval

Nearly a Nun in 1960s San Francisco

Beschreibung

The winner of the 2023 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature, this beguiling, poetically drawn memoir of the author's early years as a nun in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, by Dianne Dugaw, provides a pastoral and moving ode to the cloistered world with vespers and Beatles tunes for a soundtrack.

Autor

DIANNE DUGAW is a singer-musician, writer, and scholar who publishes in folklore, music, and literary studies with an emphasis on queer topics. Her childhood on a small Pacific Northwest ranch and her early years as a Catholic nun shape her storytelling and scholarship. Her books, which include Warrior Women & Popular Balladry (University of Chicago Press) and 'Deep Play'-John Gay & the Invention of Modernity (University of Delaware Press), investigate cross-dressing women heroes, ballad origins of musical comedy, and gender and sexuality in history. She has also recorded two CDs, singing traditional British and American folksongs. Professor Emerita at the University of Oregon, Dugaw lives in the Willamette Valley with her wife and wee dog.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Schaffner Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781639640546
• ISBN-10: 1639640541
• Artikelnr.: 69847037