{"product_id":"autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam","title":"Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her 1933 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/span\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expandev\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50319151464733,"sku":"9781948980296","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781948980296.jpg?v=1757018515","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}