The Queen of Peace Room
Dominic, Magie
From Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller Since January 11, 2007
Quantity: 1From Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller Since January 11, 2007
Quantity: 1About this Item
Author, " . . . explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in so doing unearths the memory of a generation. " ( rear panel ) 100 pp. plus Works Cited. Afterword: Reading The Queen of Peace Room As Witness: An Ethics of Encounter by Sharon Rosenburg. 114 pp. in toto. Bookseller's Inventory # 195025. Seller Inventory # 005025
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Queen of Peace Room
Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Card Covers
Illustrator: Author (all drawings)
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: No Edition Stated, Presumed 1st
About this title
What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime?
Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer ― and frees herself from the memories of her violent past.
On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforgettable images. The room she inhabits while there is called The Queen of Peace Room; it becomes, for her, a room of sanctuary. She examines Newfoundland in the 1940s and 1950s and New York in the 1960s; her confrontations with violence, incest, and rape; the devastating loss of friends to AIDS; and the relationship between life and art. These memories she finds stored alongside memories of nature’s images of trees pulling themselves up from their roots and fleeing the forest; storms and ley lines, and skies bursting with star-like eyes.
In The Queen of Peace Room, from a very personal perspective, Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. In eight days, she captures half a century.
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