Transanything: Essays - Couverture souple

Jones, Ever

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810148706 ISBN 13 : 9780810148703

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2025

Synopsis

A debut essay collection that upends our notions of loneliness, wilderness, and liberation

Transanything reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seasons churn, all amid Ever Jones’s own narrative of midlife gender transition.
 
Jones takes up a tradition of writing—about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West—long intertwined with colonialism and heteropatriarchy, and makes it wholly their own. A self-proclaimed “nature essay� misbehaves, wandering away from the hummingbird outside Jones’s window. In their chronicle of a week in Yellowstone, Jones navigates trails frequented by grizzlies and a campground where their identity is regarded as equally dangerous. Elk, bison, and bark spiders roam this book’s pages, but it is the gray wolf—the embattled apex predator of the American West, narrow survivor of settler colonial violence, and vessel for American myths of independence—who emerges as Jones’s shapeshifting coprotagonist.
 
Taking on a global web of colonial systems that seek to divide us, Jones disrupts loneliness and forges space for queerness and transness to be aliveness—to be transanything.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

EVER JONES is a professor of creative writing at the University of Washington Tacoma. Their poetry books includenightsong and Wilderness Lessons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810148706
• ISBN 13: 9780810148703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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• Personne responsable: non disponible