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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : new. First Edition. Product DescriptionWalls Essays 19851990 Kenneth McClanes first book of autobiographical essays originally published in 1991 is closely related to his second collection Color published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009 Walls is a powerful and deeply moving meditation on relationships It begins with an essay on the death of McClanes brother Paul which changed everything Time my work everything found a new calculusHis brothers life and death are present in some way in all the essays that follow A Death in the Family as McClane tells us about giving a poetry reading in a maximumsecurity prison his experience of being one of the first two African American students to attend Americas oldest private school teaching creative writing his sister Adrienne a divestment protest at Cornell and his encounters with James BaldwinMcClane has written a new preface to this paperback edition of Walls in which he reminds us that we are inevitably interconnected we are each others witnessReviewThe author of six collections of poems McClane Cornell ventures into new literary territory with his first collection of essays Walls Although McClanes introduction confesses to considerable trepidation about writing in this genre readers will be richly rewarded by the quality of his prose The cornerstone of this collection is McClanes first essay a poignant and powerful meditation on the death of his alcoholic brother The elegiac tone he establishes here shapes the mood of the entire collection From this vantage point McClane writes eloquently about the experience of being both African American and middleclass in contemporary America Whether he is exploring the sensations of giving a poetry reading to inmates at Auburn or describing a Unity Day fiasco in Connecticut or recounting the terrible condition of his braindamaged sister McClane writes with elegance insight and passion In his explorations of the dilemmas of race and class against the backdrop of the American academy McClanes essays break new ground in the tradition of African American personal narratives Highly recommended for all collections ChoiceIn this absorbing collection of essays originally published in 1991 Cornell literature professor McClane muses deeply on issues of identity race family and academia Walls is a heady volume McClane is foremost a poet and his essays carry the reverberant weight of poetry demanding a careful read Moreover he peppers his prose with esoteric references to James Baldwin Chekhov Kafka and others lending these essays an academic air He claims that the loss of his brother to alcoholism pervades each tale yet the pieces on his mentallydisabled sister or his difficult time at Collegiate carry equal emotional weight PW Annex ReviewsKenneth McClanes Walls is a collection of exquisitely crafted autobiographical essays that rivals the most profound nonfictional writings of James Baldwin in its skillful investigation of the hidden recesses of the alwaysthrobbing black American soul Indeed Walls is a beautifully calibrated exploration of the challenges faced by a courageously selfawareand refreshingly selfrevealingblack intellectual whose journey to and in the American mainstream is both menacing and exhilarating Michael Awkward University of MichiganWalls reminds us of the differences that set us apart dividing our world into good kids and troublemakers winners and losers the beautiful and the damned The anodyne for exile in these essays is McClanes common but by no means commonplace lexicon at once evocative and spare that leads us to painful but honest connection and the luminous possibility of empathy William L Andrews University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAbout the AuthorKenneth A McClane is the W E B Du Bois Professor of Literature at Cornell University He is the author of Color Essays on Race Family and Hi. N° de réf. du vendeur DADAX0268035202
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