Tapestry/Unraveling

Tapestry/Unraveling collects and weaves webs, describes and defies. As an anthology preoccupied with and invested in the nostalgia and wonder associated with summer camp, it mobilizes evidence of tangible witness. The author, building on her histories as camper, adolescent, leader, and educator, utilizes associative thought and methodological collision to question what it means for one life stage to become another, one person to become another, one form to become another. She asks: How are anthologies our pasts, presents, and futures? How do we destabilize our understandings of nostalgia, inherited power, and intergenerational care? Tapestry/Unraveling is not a summer camp guidebook. Nor does it reflect on the histories of summer camp. It illustrates camp as a personal process of change. Both summer and camp have been abstracted into agents of transformation. Anthology is the medium and scaffolding.