Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays - Couverture souple

Biss, Eula

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555975186 ISBN 13 : 9781555975180

Editeur : Graywolf Press,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

In a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies, Eula Biss explores race in America. Her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays, such as teaching in a Harlem school and reporting for an African American paper. These spare, sometimes lyrical essays artfully reveal in intimate detail how families, schools and neighbourhoods participate in racial privilege.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'I can't think of an American writer at work today who matches Eula Biss's combination of lyrical precision, exhaustive research, timely provocation, and fiercely examined conscience.' --Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

'Two of the qualities that make Eula Biss's essays in Notes from No Man's Land compelling and beautiful are precision and independence- independence from orthodoxies of the right and left and the conventions of literary essays and their displays of sensibility and sensitivity. And whatever topic she takes up she dissects and analyzes with startling insight that comes from deep reading and original thinking. She's important to this moment, important to the opening up of what essays can be, important for setting a standard of integrity and insight, and she's also a joy to read.'- Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark

'The essays in this book were written prior to Trump's election, and have acquired extra resonance in light of it. At a time of profound uncertainty about what it means to be American, Biss's insights on the history of American migration, both internal (rural-urban, and vice versa)and external, are especially timely [...] Like so much of Biss's writing, the message here is simultaneously both forceful and measured- no mean feat when there is so much at stake.' --Houman Barekat, Irish Times

'[Notes from No Man's Land] is an archival project, a wide-ranging, elegantly shaped collage.[...] Biss is [..] consistently enlightening.'- Jamie Fisher, the TLS

'Notes from No Man's Land is a beautiful exercise in consciousness; in bringing both intelligence and experience to bear on a subject that has implications for the way one behaves in the world.' --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

Biographie de l'auteur

Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists, Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays, which received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and On Immunity. Her essays have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and The Best Creative Nonfiction, as well as in the Believer and Harper's. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Biss holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa. She teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555975186
• ISBN 13: 9781555975180
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible