I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

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A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon. The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab program. Already in her young life as a Jewish teen in the 1980s, she had been the victim of rape, abuse, and trauma, and her path to healing would be long. But in Parton's words and music, she recognized a fellow survivor. In this powerful, incisive work of social and self-exploration, Melnick blends personal essay with cultural criticism to explore Parton's dual identities as feminist icon and objectified sex symbol, identities that reflect the author's own fraught history with rape culture and the arduous work of reclaiming her voice. Each chapter engages with the artistry and impact of one of Parton's songs, as Melnick reckons with violence, misogyny, creativity, parenting, friendship, sex, love, and the consolations and cruelties of religion. Bold and inventive, I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive gives us an accessible and memorable framework for understanding our times and a revelatory account of survival, persistence, and self-discovery.

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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781477326008
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Seven Bridges Road
  8. Chapter One: Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That
  9. Chapter Two: Steady as the Rain
  10. Chapter Three: The Seeker
  11. Chapter Four: Here You Come Again
  12. Chapter Five: Jolene
  13. Chapter Six: The Grass Is Blue
  14. Chapter Seven: Coat of Many Colors
  15. Chapter Eight: Islands in the Stream
  16. Chapter Nine: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
  17. Chapter Ten: Will He Be Waiting for Me
  18. Chapter Eleven: Down from Dover
  19. Chapter Twelve: Silver Dagger
  20. Chapter Thirteen: Don’t Think Twice
  21. Chapter Fourteen: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
  22. Chapter Fifteen: Little Sparrow
  23. Chapter Sixteen: 9 to 5
  24. Chapter Seventeen: Two Doors Down
  25. Chapter Eighteen: Put a Little Love in Your Heart
  26. Chapter Nineteen: Blue Smoke
  27. Chapter Twenty: The Bargain Store
  28. Chapter Twenty-One: The Story
  29. Acknowledgments: I Will Always Love You
  30. References and Resources