The Queen of Peace Room
Dominic, Magie
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Quantity: 15From Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
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Explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. The author 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. Series: Life Writing Series. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GT; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 254. . 2002. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780889204171
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Queen of Peace Room
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
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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