Counternarratives

Name: Counternarratives
Brand: New Directions
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Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are "suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting (Publishers Weekly)

Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. "An Outtake chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty and the American Revolution; "The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; "The Aeronauts soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; "Rivers portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in "Acrobatique, the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

17. Mai 2016

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

320

Dateigröße

2,56 MB

Autor/Autorin

John Keene

Verlag/Hersteller

New Directions

Kopierschutz

mit Adobe-DRM-Kopierschutz

Produktart

EBOOK

Dateiformat

EPUB

ISBN

9780811224352

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Portrait

John Keene

John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Annotations (1995) and Counternarratives (2015), both published by New Directions. Counternarratives received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor and serves as department chair at Rutgers University-Newark

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