Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit (2010)

Rebecca Solnit (born June 11, 1961 ) is an American writer , journalist , essayist and cultural historian .

Life

Solnit was born in Bridgeport , Connecticut, to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. In her youth she was abused by her father and, according to her own statements, grew up surrounded by male violence in a deeply misogynous environment. She attributes part of her motivation to her own experiences.

She has not attended public high schools, but she passed the General Educational Development Test (GED) required to study at college . At the age of 17 she went to Paris to study . After returning to California , she graduated from San Francisco State University at the age of 20 . She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an MA in Journalism in 1984 . She has been working as a freelance writer since 1988. She is a columnist for the British daily The Guardian and contributing editor to the American magazine Harper's , for which she is the first woman to write the Easy Chair column, alternating with other authors . It is also published regularly on the independent critical website tomdispatch.com . In 2008 her essay Men Explain Things to Me was published there ; Facts Didn't Get in Their Way. (Revised 2012), to which the origin of the term mansplaining is attributed. Solnit also writes for The New Yorker .

In 2013, The Faraway Nearby was a very personal retrospective of how Rebecca Solnit said goodbye to her mother, who had Alzheimer's disease, and started a new life even after suffering from breast cancer. Rebecca Solnit has lived in San Francisco since 1980.

Themes of their work

Since the 1980s, Solnit has dealt with environmental and human rights issues. She fought for the Western Shoshone's right to their own land in the deserts of Nevada and California in the 1990s . In the years since 2000 she has been active against the wars of the USA under the administration of George W. Bush . Other of her topics are natural disasters such as earthquakes and their consequences. For the US bimonthly magazine Utne Reader , Solnit was one of the 25 visionaries on earth in 2010 who are changing the world through their writings on the influence of technology on the spiritual world and art.

On June 25, 2013, she published the article Welcome to the (Don't Be) Evil Empire on TomDispatch.com . Google Eats the World , published on July 5, 2013 by FAZ in German and slightly abbreviated under the title Who is stopping Google? appeared. In August 2015, Elisabeth Raether conducted an interview with the author, including about her latest book.

honors and awards

Publications (selection)

  • Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era . City Lights Publishers, San Francisco 1990, ISBN 0-87286-254-2 .
  • Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West . Sierra Club Books, San Francisco 1994, ISBN 0-87156-526-9 .
  • with Ronald Takaki , introduction by Andy Grunberg: Tracing Cultures. Friends of Photography, San Francisco 1995, USA, ISBN 0-933286-69-4 .
  • A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland . Verso 1997, ISBN 1-85984-885-0 .
  • with Richard Misrach , (Photographs): The Sky Book , Arena Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 2000, ISBN 1-892041-28-6 .
  • Wanderlust: A History of Walking . Penguin, 2000, ISBN 0-14-028601-2 .
    • German: Wanderlust. A story of walking . Translation Daniel Fastner. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-563-0 .
  • As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 2001, ISBN 0-8203-2215-6 .
  • River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West . Viking, New York City 2003, ISBN 0-670-03176-3 .
  • with John Pfahl (Photographs): Extreme Horticulture . Frances Lincoln, London 2003.
    • German: The other Eden: unusual garden art in America . Translated by Eva Schweikart. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-8067-2917-4 .
  • with Morton Klett and Byron Wolfe: Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers . Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas 2005, ISBN 1-59534-016-5 .
  • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities . Nation Books, 2005, ISBN 1-56025-577-3 . (Updated Edition, Haymarket Books Chicago 2016, ISBN 978-1-60846-576-7 .)
    • German: Hope in the Dark: Infinite stories, wild possibilities . Translated by Michael Mundhenk. Pendo, Munich / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-86612-059-1 .
  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost . Penguin, 2005, ISBN 0-14-303724-2 .
    • German: The art of getting lost: A guide through the maze of life . Translated by Michael Mundhenk. Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86612-213-0 .
  • Storming the Gates of Paradise . University of California Press, Berkeley 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-25656-9 .
  • A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. Viking 2009, ISBN 978-0-670-02107-9 .
  • with David Solnit (Ed.): The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle . AK Press, Oakland, California, USA 2009, ISBN 978-1-904859-63-5 .
  • Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas . University of California Press, Berkeley, California 2010, ISBN 978-0-520-26250-8 .
  • with Mona Caron : California Bestiary . Heyday Books, Berkeley 2010, ISBN 978-1-59714-125-3 .
  • with Trevor Paglen , photos: Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes . Aperture Foundation, New York City 2010, ISBN 978-1-59711-130-0 .
  • Winged Mercury and Golden Calf . Translated by Michael Mundhenk. In: Das Rheingold. Program of the Bavarian State Opera 2012.
  • The Faraway Nearby . Viking, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-670-02596-1 .
  • Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas . University of California Press, Berkeley 2013, ISBN 978-0-520-26249-2 .
  • Men Explain Things to Me , illustrated by Ana Teresa Fernandez. Haymarket Books, Chicago 2014, ISBN 978-1-60846-386-2 .
    • When men explain the world to me . From the American English by Kathrin Razum. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-50352-4 .
  • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas, USA 2014, ISBN 978-1-59534-198-3 .
  • Non stop metropolis. A New York City Atlas. University of California Press, Berkeley 2016, ISBN 978-0-520-28595-8 .
  • The Mother of All Questions. Haymarket Books, New York, USA 2017, ISBN 978-1-60846-740-2 .
  • Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays). Haymarket Books, Chicago 2018, ISBN 978-1-60846-946-8 .
  • Recollections of My Nonexistence . Granta Publications, London 2020, ISBN 978-1783785445
Collective edition with other authors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rana Foroohar: Feminist writer Rebecca Solnit on mansplaining and #MeToo. In: Financial Times. February 9, 2018, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rebecca Solnit In: The Guardian. accessed on August 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Easy Chair. In: Harper's Magazine.
  4. ^ Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me; Facts Didn't Get in Their Way. www.commondreams.org, April 13, 2008, accessed January 23, 2016.
  5. ^ Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me. Facts Didn't Get in Their Way. www.tomdispatch.com, revised version from August 19, 2012, accessed on January 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ryan Kost: Feminist force: Rebecca Solnit revisits her formative past in new memoir. In: San Francisco Chronicle. March 6, 2020, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Who is stopping Google? In: FAZ. July 5, 2013, p. 31. Online: faz.net
  8. ↑ America is brutal. In: Zeitmagazin . No. 32, pp. 16 to 25
  9. ↑ City infinity. In: FAZ . July 15, 2011, p. 32.
  10. ↑ Listen. But. Times. To! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . April 12, 2015, p. 42. Published online April 16, 2015
  11. ↑ On the penetrating eloquence of men . Review by Vera Linß. Deutschlandradio Kultur, August 14, 2014. Online: deutschlandradiokultur.de
personal data
SURNAME Solnit, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American essayist and cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1961