{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam","title":"The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her 1933 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, blurring the lines between portrait and self-portrait. Almost a century later, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein’s project to tell a different story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao’s life journey from Việt Nam during the war, and her own troubled history as a gender-queer Taiwanese American, Lin draws in subjects as varied as photography, cancer, tropical fruit, 9\/11, and Eve Sedgwick’s eyeglasses, weaving an intimate landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLana Lin\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, artist, and filmmaker based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of the book \u003ci\u003eFreud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e and film and video works including \u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Journals Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e. Her various works and collaborative projects (with Lan Thao Lam as “Lin + Lam”) have exhibited at festivals and art and educational spaces throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, and New Museum, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gasworks, London; the Taiwan International Documentary Festival and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, New Taipei City; Arko Art Center, Korean Arts Council, Seoul; and the 2018 Busan Biennale. Having had three years of psychoanalytic training before dropping out, she sometimes still dreams of becoming a psychoanalyst one day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472891539745,"sku":"9781948980296","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/8521\/9617\/files\/autobiographyofhthaolim.jpg?v=1774212677","url":"https:\/\/www.onwaverly.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam","provider":"On Waverly","version":"1.0","type":"link"}