Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays) - Rilegato

Solnit, Rebecca

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ISBN 10: 1783784970 ISBN 13: 9781783784974

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2018

Riassunto

Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The ultimate focus of the book is climate and feminist activism, bringing Solnit's trademark deep analysis to bear on a range of contemporary crises. And again, and spectacularly, she shows us how to hope.

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"Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading." -The New Republic

"Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy." -Elle

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change.

The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783784970
• ISBN 13: 9781783784974
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile