The Queen of Peace Room
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780889204171
Description: "Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer - and frees herself from the memories of her violent past." "On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforgettable images. The room she inhabits while there is called The Queen of Peace Room; it becomes, for her, a room of sanctuary. She examines Newfoundland in the 1940s and 1950s and New York in the 1960s; her confrontations with violence, incest, and rape; the devastating loss of friends to AIDS; and the relationship between life and art. These memories she finds stored alongside memories of nature - images of trees pulling themselves up from their roots and fleeing the forest; storms and ley lines, and skies bursting with star-like eyes." "In The Queen of Peace Room, from a very personal perspective, Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. In eight days, she captures half a century."--Jacket.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; label: Liturgy of the Hours
pagenum: xiii; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: Friday, Midnight
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2
title: Saturday Morning
pagenum: 11; label: Chapter 3
title: Sunday, 7 A. M.
pagenum: 23; label: Chapter 4
title: Monday, 6 A. M.
pagenum: 43; label: Chapter 5
title: Tuesday, Dawn
pagenum: 63; label: Chapter 6
title: Wednesday, Pre-dawn
pagenum: 79; label: Chapter 7
title: Thursday. 9 A. M.
pagenum: 89; label: Chapter 8
title: Friday, Rain
pagenum: 93; label: Epilogue
title: 99; label: Works Cited
title: 101; label: Afterword; title: Reading  The Queen of Peace Room  As Witness:  An Ethics Encounter
pagenum: 103; title: Selected Texts of Related Interest (Canadian emphasis)
pagenum: 114