unMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving together intersectionalities and intertextualities. Author Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, a biracial LGBTQIA+ Nisei who was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, to a non-native-English-speaking Issei mother, considers not only the tensions in the rifts between intersectional identities (biracial Nisei, LGBTQIA+) but also the tensions between marginalized identities and the landscapes and cultures of the American West; the tensions between nonnative, second, erased, and/or forgotten languages; and the tensions between those who abuse and those who survive. These rifts, intersections, and fractures, while frequently a source of violence and immense grief, are also a source of illumination and clarity. The essays in this collection are written almost entirely in hybrid/lyric forms-oftentimes braided, oftentimes patchworked, oftentimes segmented-reflecting some of the fractured complexities and intersections of Horikoshi Roripaugh's own hybrid identities.

本書は、ワイオミングの荒野と多層的な個性が交差する境界から紡がれた鋭利な抒情エッセイ集です。堀越ロリポーは断片化された自己を繋ぎ、悲しみの中から真実を掬う魂の再構築を描きました。境界の葛藤がこれほど美しく昇華された事実に、読者は深く圧倒されるでしょう。 ハイブリッドな言葉は、沈黙の記憶と風景を鮮烈に結びつけます。テキストの裂け目から漏れ出すのは、暴力や喪失を越えた先にある静謐な覚醒。言葉にならない「間」の豊かさを追求した本作は、既存の枠組みを打ち破り、個の根源に触れる真の救済の書と言えます。