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BOOK
Title The red parts : autobiography of a trial / Maggie Nelson
Imprint Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016]
©2007

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Edition Paperback edition
Descript xvii, 201 pages 21 cm
Note Reprint. Originally published: Free Press, 2007. With new preface
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199)
In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break. She never made it- she was brutally murdered, her body found a few miles from campus the following day.The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson's singular account of her aunt Jane's death, and the trial that took place some 35 years afterward. Officially unsolved for decades, the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect, who would soon be arrested and tried. In 2005, Nelson found herself attending the trial, and reflecting with fresh urgency on our relentless obsession with violence, particularly against women. Resurrecting her interior world during the trial - in all its horror, grief, obsession, recklessness, scepticism and downright confusion - Maggie Nelson has produced a work of profound integrity and, in its subtle indeterminacy, deadly moral precision
Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969. Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reopened; a new suspect would be arrested and tried on the basis of a DNA match. Over the months that followed, Nelson found herself attending the trial with her mother and reflecting anew on the aura of dread and fear that hung over her family and childhood--an aura that derived not only from the terrible facts of her aunt's murder, but also from her own complicated journey through sisterhood, daughterhood, and girlhood. The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy
Subject Mixer, Jane Louise, -1969
Nelson, Maggie, 1973-
Mordutredning
Mordoffer
Familjer
Mord -- psykologiska aspekter
Förenta staterna -- Michigan
Fallstudier
Classmark 362.88
Oepa
Geqz Nelson, Maggie
ISBN/ISSN 9781555977368
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