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SHE AND I
Natania Rosenfeld
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SHE AND I is about female intersubjectivity and art. Mother and daughter, friend and friend, together cathect with a work, a performance, a sybaritic experience. The essayist is in dialogue, above all, with herself, about the Paterian pulsations permitting a body to go on: into middle age, through regret, toward hope. Through the bust of Nefertiti, Turkish baths, silkworms, Michelangelo, opera, jazz, and even ice cream, she renews the initial frisson of discovering a kindred soul (mother, friend) and intensifies her commitment to creative selfhood.
NATANIA ROSENFELD grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, with stints in Germany, Vienna and Israel, attended Bryn Mawr College and received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University. She is the author of a book of poetry, Wild Domestic, and a critical monograph, Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Her essays, poems and fiction have appeared in many journals, including APR, Raritan, Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Southwest Review, and four of the former have been listed as “Notable” in recent Best American Essays collections. She is a soon-to-be Emerita Professor of English at Knox College and lives in Galesburg and Chicago, IL.
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