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Vantage Points
Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
A provocative book by an acclaimed writer-filmmaker that combines memoir and media as seen through a trans lens
Following the death of the family patriarch, a box of newly procured family documents reveals writer-filmmaker Chase Joynt’s previously unknown connection to Canadian media maverick Marshall McLuhan. Vantage Points takes up the surprising appearance of McLuhan in Joynt’s family archive as a way to think about legacies of childhood sexual abuse and how we might process and represent them. To do so, Joynt stages a series of vignettes that place memoir in the context of other sources, media, and stories to create a tapestry – a montage-like experience of reading with surprising and revealing juxtapositions.
Joynt writes about difficult pasts and connects them to contemporary politics and ways of being, employing McLuhan’s seminal Understanding Media as an inciting framework. Vantage Points is a kaleidoscopic reckoning with the impact of media and masculinity on the stories we tell about ourselves and our families, a unique and highly visual approach to trans life writing, and an experimental move between gender and genre.
With black-and-white illustrations.
“ltpgtIm not sure anyone has ever encountered a media theory as moving as this ltigtVantage Pointsltigt realizes the profound possibility of media theory to operate itself like a technology and mechanism of survival Sarah Sharma coeditor of ltigtReUnderstanding Media Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhanltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtJoynt delivers an original meditation on trauma and transitioning Drawing on the media theorist Marshall McLuhans writings to reflect on surviving childhood sexual abuse Joynt juxtaposes episodes from his life with McLuhans insights creating meaning through literary montage Enigmatic yet evocative this demands to be read on its own terms ltigtPublishers Weeklyltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtGenre and form defying ltigtVantage Pointsltigt is a remarkably subversive book by one of our generations most brilliant trans mediamakers At once a vigorous intellectual engagement with the work of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan a lyrical family counterhistory a formal experiment and a powerful reckoning with inherited trauma violence and relatedly normative masculinity ltigtVantage Pointsltigt is an absolutely unprecedented nonfiction project thats as inventive as it is deeply moving I loved this book Thomas Page McBee author of ltigtAmateurltigt and ltigtMan Aliveltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtAn effective experiment in form and a moving exploration of how context colours interpretation and how both affect the nature of truth ltigtThe Walrusltigt Best Books of Fall 2024ltpgt”
“ltpgtltigtVantage Pointsltigt is a stunning work that offers new ideas compassion and hope for a kinder egalitarian future that may let us all heal breathe and truly be Elliot Page author of ltigtPageboy A Memoirltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtltigtVantage Pointsltigt defies genre conventions It is a metareckoning with the work of famed Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan whose edict the medium is the message Joynt prods ponders and explodes to exciting effect throughout The work also serves as an arresting family memoir about the long tail of childhood trauma It presents itself as an exciting formal experiment while offering a moving reckoning of normative masculinity with a trans lens Thomas McBee for ltigtBOMBltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtJoynt delivers an original meditation on trauma and transitioning Drawing on the media theorist Marshall McLuhans writings to reflect on surviving childhood sexual abuse Joynt juxtaposes episodes from his life with McLuhans insights creating meaning through literary montage Enigmatic yet evocative this demands to be read on its own terms ltigtPublishers Weeklyltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtGenre and form defying ltigtVantage Pointsltigt is a remarkably subversive book by one of our generations most brilliant trans mediamakers At once a vigorous intellectual engagement with the work of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan a lyrical family counterhistory a formal experiment and a powerful reckoning with inherited trauma violence and relatedly normative masculinity ltigtVantage Pointsltigt is an absolutely unprecedented nonfiction project thats as inventive as it is deeply moving I loved this book Thomas Page McBee author of ltigtAmateurltigt and ltigtMan Aliveltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtAn effective experiment in form and a moving exploration of how context colours interpretation and how both affect the nature of truth ltigtThe Walrusltigt Best Books of Fall 2024ltpgt”
“ltpgtltigtVantage Pointsltigt is a stunning work that offers new ideas compassion and hope for a kinder egalitarian future that may let us all heal breathe and truly be Elliot Page author of ltigtPageboy A Memoirltigtltpgt”
“ltpgtltigtVantage Pointsltigt defies genre conventions It is a metareckoning with the work of famed Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan whose edict the medium is the message Joynt prods ponders and explodes to exciting effect throughout The work also serves as an arresting family memoir about the long tail of childhood trauma It presents itself as an exciting formal experiment while offering a moving reckoning of normative masculinity with a trans lens Thomas McBee for ltigtBOMBltigtltpgt”
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Dimensions:
256 Pages
7.00in * 4.00in * .75in
260.00gr
Published:
September 17, 2024
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ISBN:
9781551529578
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Language:
eng
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