![]() ![]() Machado writes that she has no “language” in which to reconstruct her memory of the haunted dream house. However, the telling is a struggle because an aporia looms large at its center. The lesbian domestic space in Machado’s telling is neither tranquil nor transcendental. In her memoir, Machado contests these notions by foregrounding her own experience of being in an abusive relationship with a woman. Moreover-and shockingly so-queer love, like its straight counterpart, can engender intimate partner violence. It’s just as fraught and fractured as heterosexual love. ![]() This love, according to Machado, has been etherealized into an ideal attainable without “men’s accompanying bullshit.” Yet, as Machado contends, historically, lesbian love is not immune to the oppressive structures of patriarchy. In her 2019 memoir, In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado writes not only to ameliorate self-suffering but also to disabuse readers’ notions about lesbian love. Indeed, autobiographical outpourings can have a cathartic effect-of cleansing-on the writer’s soul. ![]() ![]() “Writing is a way to get rid of shame,” says Karl Ove Knausgaard, reflecting on why he wrote his celebrated 3,600-plus-page-long multivolume memoir, My Struggle. ![]()
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