Memoirs of a Terrorist

by Sally Patterson Tubach

Overview

'Memoris of A Terrorist' is a haunting experimental novel about a daughter raped by her father. Throughout the stations of her picaresque life in California and Europe, Megan Lloyd fails to bring to consciousness an awareness of the crime committed against her that she repressed long ago. This fatal blind spot eventually reveals itself in the sexual bondage murder of her lover in a Munich hotel. In a parallel and complementary narrative, Lloyd's rapist father both analyses the posthumous writings of his daughter for clues to her behavior and confesses his crime in a quest for personal expiation as he faces his own death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438422428
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	09/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	369 KB

About the Author

Sally Patterson Tubach has co-authored two books, Michael Mann: Fragmente eines Lebens and The Challenge of Age.

Table of Contents

Prologue In Hell

I. Growing Up

II. Berkeley, USA

III. Göttingen, Germany

IV. Scenes from a Marriage

V. Dallas, Texas

VI. Autobahn Dogfight

VII. The Summer Solstice

VIII. The Corpse

IX. Flight

X. Empire de la Mort

XI. Quicksand

XII. Prison Diary

Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

The breath-taking first novel of a genuine literary talent, Memoirs of a Terrorist portrays the initiation journey of a young American woman sexually traumatized in her childhood, who fails at academic life in Berkeley, murders a lover in Europe, and dies in the prime of her youth. Her story is redeemed, however, by a parallel quest and confession of the father who violated her but later engages in a search for the history of her life, which he tries to reconstruct piece by piece. Set against a backdrop of historical and social realism, the story descends into darkness and labyrinths. An array of mythological figures and archetypes is evoked throughout this haunting erotic narrative, and skillfully woven into its complex texture.”—Antoine Faivre, Sorbonne

“Memoirs of a Terrorist raises the intimate crime of incest to the level of world politics. Both thriller and polemic, it takes the reader on a dazzling journey from Malibu to Munich, from Dallas to the murky nether world of Paris...terrifying in its implications.”— Carolyn See, author of Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America

“...a truly innovative first novel. Two narrators, father and daughter, create a fascinating point-counterpoint with their individual perspectives in a story of gender violence set in America and western Europe during the politically turbulent seventies. This book presents a tale of mobility and mayhem that courses through an individual female body and across continents; an exciting experiment in fictionalintertextuality that will rivet both American and European readers.”—Christa Karpenstein-EBbach, writer and critic

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