Notes from No Man's Land (eBook)

Eula Biss (Autor)

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2017
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
978-1-910695-40-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity, Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays - teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting from an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of hurricane Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicago's most diverse neighbourhood. As Biss moves across the country from New York to California to the Midwest, her essays move across from biblical Babylon to the freedmen's schools of Reconstruction to post-war white flight. She brings an eclectic education to the page, drawing variously on the Eagles, Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, religious pamphlets, and reality television. These spare, sometimes lyric essays explore the legacy of race in America, artfully revealing in intimate detail how families, schools, and neighbourhood participate in preserving racial privilege.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 9/11 • African American • Alexander Graham Bell • America • American essays • Another Day In The Death of America • Babylon • Between the World and Me • Black and British • Black lives matter • California • Chicago • Civil Rights Movement • Claudia Rankine • David Olusoga • Du Bois • essay collection • Essays • Eula Biss • Fitzcarraldo • Fitzcarraldo Editions • Gary Younge • Goodbye to All That • Harlem • Hope in the Dark • Hurricane Katrina • James Baldwin • Jim Crow • Joan Didion • Laura Ingalls Wilder • Leslie Jamison • lynching • Maggie Nelson • Margo Jefferson • Mexico • NAFTA • National Book Critics Circle Award • Native Americans • Negroland • New York • Nikesh Shukla • Nina Simone • Olivia Laing • On Immunity • Race • Race Traitor • racial identity • Racism • rebecca solnit • reconstruction • San Diego • Segregation • Slavery • Ta-Nehisi Coates • Teaching • The Argonauts • The Balloonists • the Eagles • The Empathy Exams • the good immigrant • The Little House on the Prairie • The Lonely City • USA • white flight • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-10: 1-910695-40-8 / 1910695408
• ISBN-13: 978-1-910695-40-1 / 9781910695401