Recollections of My Non-Existence

　　無懼於要求女性噤聲的社會 雷貝嘉‧索爾尼依舊勇於為自己發聲

　　19歲的雷貝嘉‧索爾尼，在舊金山這個城市，貧窮卻充滿希望，而她的住所，成為她找到自我的根源。她在書堆中尋找自我，並書寫自我於文字之間；她在同志社群中看見家庭不僅限於男女，幸福無關乎自性別；最後，她在一望無垠的曠野中，體會人類的渺小。

　　1980年代的舊金山，性別歧視仍無所不在，女性在藝文界仍是處處被排擠著，在這樣的舊金山，雷貝嘉‧索爾尼還是以作家及女性主義者的身分立足於此，沒有絲毫猶豫。

　　這不僅只是索爾尼的回憶錄，還是索爾尼充滿激情的生命旅程，曾受權威人士性騷擾的她、眼見他人知情卻噤聲的她，以充滿穿透力的文字，起而告訴我們，在兩性不平等的時代，女性是如何備受影響，而她又是如何起而發聲，改變現況。(文/博客來編譯)

　　"A marvel: a memoir that details her awakening as a feminist, an environmentalist, and a citizen of the world. Every single sentence is exquisite." --Maris Kreizman, Vulture

　　An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent

　　In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves; the gay community that presented a new model of what else gender, family, and joy could mean; and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West.

　　Beyond being a memoir, Solnit's book is also a passionate argument: that women are not just impacted by personal experience, but by membership in a society where violence against women pervades. Looking back, she describes how she came to recognize that her own experiences of harassment and menace were inseparable from the systemic problem of who has a voice, or rather who is heard and respected and who is silenced--and how she was galvanized to use her own voice for change.

作者簡介

　　REBECCA SOLNIT is author of, among other books, Call Them By Their True Names, The Mother of All Questions, Men Explain Things to Me, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.