Comforting Myths (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
96
Utgivningsdatum
2024-10-22
Förlag
University of Virginia Press
Dimensioner
192 x 124 x 14 mm
Vikt
227 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780813952512

Comforting Myths

Concerning the Political in Art

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2024-10-22
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A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literature's leading lights In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition. He reveals how a political dimension enlarges a work of art rather than making it less beautiful or reducing it to a polemic, as we are so often and carelessly taught. But he also ponders what makes art political to begin with: how essential is the artists conscious political intent, and what does the reader or viewer contribute to the works political capability or significance? In exploring these questions, Alameddine engages intensely with his role as an immigrant and a gay author writing inside a globally dominant, often oblivious culture, and invokes the work of numerous writers, from Tayeb Salih and Aleksandar Hemon to Teju Cole and Salman Rushdie, who also struggle to be heard as something more than an other. The book features throughout Alameddines brilliantly relatable voiceshrewd, humorous, challenging, and as honest about his own limitations as he is about his passions.
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A provocative treatise by one of our most important literary writers on the role of politics in literature. Like most of his work, it is both wise and funny."" - Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

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Rabih Alameddine is an award-winning fiction writer and Chair of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University. His most recent novel is The Wrong End of the Telescope.