Duke University Press, 2012. 296 pages, US$23.95
Faith Wilding’s 1972 installation Crocheted Environment (Womb Room). The “twisted” “maternal melodrama” of New York cabaret performers Kiki and Herb. A memoir exploring academic anguish, the comfort of familiar bed linen, exhaustion and the sustenance of swimming. Saidiya Hartman’s Lose your Mother: A Journey …