![]() ![]() During her childhood, her father evidently beat her and her mother as a regular alcohol-induced ritual, attempting to whack the women around him into nonexistence. ![]() ![]() Her evolving awareness of her nonexistence-one can only assume that she chose the word carefully-courses through Recollections of My Nonexistence, originating as a trickle and emerging as a wide river. In RMN Solnit mixes intellectual issues with their social application, a combination that has been historically referred to as praxis although she doesn’t use the term. She is careful in her memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, not to deny the importance of her more youthful authorial concerns but clearly states that she has moved beyond some of them to concentrate on themes more central to her current commitments and identity: the American West, the sense of place, the environment, and feminism. ![]() Rebecca Solnit, a contemporary public intellectual, is the author of more than twenty non-fiction books and collections of essays ranging from history to the Western Shoshone to nuclear testing to feminism. Recollections of My Nonexistence – Solnit’s memoir, essays steeped in her honest reflection of an intellectual life well-lived. ![]()
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