MINE

Essays

Sarah Viren (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2018
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-5954-4 (ISBN)

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A book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. Mining her own life and those of others, Sarah Viren considers the contingencies of ownership alongside the realities of loss in this debut essay collection.

This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man’s furniture while he’s on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. What does it mean to believe that a hand, or a child, or a country, or a story belongs to you? What happens if you realize you’re wrong? Mining her own life and those of others, Sarah Viren considers the contingencies of ownership alongside the realities of loss in this debut essay collection.

Sarah Viren is a writer, translator, and former newspaper reporter. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, she teaches at Arizona State University.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 200 mm
Gewicht	525 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8263-5954-X / 082635954X
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-5954-4 / 9780826359544
Zustand	Neuware