Blanket: Object Lessons - Brossura

Thompson, Kara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1628922656 ISBN 13: 9781628922653

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Riassunto

Blanket explores covers in everyday contexts, "New World" colonial encounters, contemporary art, emerging economies, and collecting practices to show how the blanket is not just an object of utility, but one that provides lessons in metaphor, viruses, and secrets.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kara Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, College of William and Mary, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and the Atlantic.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We pull and tug on blankets to cover our bodies, to see us through the night, or an illness. Blankets shield us in mourning, and witness our most intimate pleasures. We are born into blankets. Blankets keep us alive, and they cover us in death. Blanket reveals blankets everywhere: film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home. Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object: It transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1628922656
• ISBN 13: 9781628922653
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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