Jia Tolentino
Autor(a) de Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
About the Author
Obras de Jia Tolentino
Associated Works
Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World (2018) — Contribuinte — 76 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1988-11-20
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
Canada - Local de nascimento
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Locais de residência
- Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Houston, Texas, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Educação
- University of Virginia
- Ocupação
- journalist
- Agente
- Amy Williams
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 1,274
- Popularidade
- #20,133
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 42
- ISBNs
- 19
- Idiomas
- 7
This approach works well, though, and it's good that the earlier essays focus more heavily on this, because I felt like the latter ones focus on more important material, and being familiar with Tolentino's style by that point meant I could focus on the arguments.
I found some essays were beyond me. Pure Heroines works best if you've read a lot of literature.
Some essays use a lot of words to convey a point, and got a little slow at times, but it was nice to be able to trace Tolentino's thought process as she deals with hard topics. And I think that thing that I found unsettling at the start, about bringing "just the right amount of yourself" into the work, turned out to be a huge advantage for the harder topics of the essays "We Come From Old Virginia", "The Cult of the Difficult Woman" and "I Thee Dread", because the arguments are nuanced in response to a complex topic, and so having a good understanding of the author's context makes it easier to empathise, and therefore, to see the nuance.
So yeah, 4.5 stars. I've already recommended it to two or three friends.… (mais)