The Riots - Brossura

Deulen, Danielle Cadena

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ISBN 10: 0820344389 ISBN 13: 9780820344386

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2013

Riassunto

<p>Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen&rsquo;s artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender.</p><p>In &ldquo;Aperture,&rdquo; she considers how she has contributed to her autistic brother&rsquo;s isolation from family and from the world. &ldquo;Theft&rdquo; investigates her mother&rsquo;s romantic stories about conquistadors in the context of the Mexican heritage of her biracial family. Throughout the collection Deulen experiments formally, alternating traditional narrative with &ldquo;still life&rdquo; essays and collages that characterize a particular time, place, and sensibility.</p><p>Deulen is remarkable in her ability to present her own confusion and culpability, and she also writes with compassion for others, such as her own suicidal and unpredictable father or a boy in her class who sets the teacher&rsquo;s hair on fire. In part because she herself so poorly fits the identities she might be assigned&mdash;white in appearance, she is in fact half Latina; raised in a poor neighborhood, she has acquired an education associated with the middle class&mdash;Deulen sees &ldquo;otherness&rdquo; as a useless category and the enemy of intimacy, which she embraces despite its risks.</p><p><i>The Riots</i> seeks to create what Frost called &ldquo;a momentary stay against confusion,&rdquo; and Deulen investigates her own act of creation even as she uses the craft of writing to put parentheses around the chaos of continuous living.</p>

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Informazioni sull'autore

DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN currently lives in Cincinnati where she is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati. Her essays are forthcoming in <i>The Iowa Review</i> and<i> American Literary Review</i>. Her poetry collection <i>Lovely Asunder</i> received the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Arkansas Press.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0820344389
• ISBN 13: 9780820344386
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 188
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile