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Racial asymmetries : Asian American fictional worlds
\"Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries specifically examines the importance of first person narration in Asian American fiction published in the postrace era, focusing on those cultural productions in which the author's ethnoracial makeup does not directly overlap with that of the storytelling perspective. Through rigorous analysis of novels and short fiction, such as Sesshu Foster's Atomik Aztex, Sabina Murray's A Carnivore's Inquiry and Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind, Sohn reveals how the construction of narrative perspective allows the Asian American writer a flexible aesthetic canvas upon which to engage issues of oppression and inequity, power and subjectivity, and the complicated construction of racial identity. Speaking to concerns running through postcolonial studies and American literature at large, Racial Asymmetries employs an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the unbounded nature of fictional worlds. Stephen Hong Sohn is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University. He is the co-editor of Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sigrid Nunez on the Writer's Life
The Friend (2018), the seventh novel of Sigrid Nunez, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. It not only tells a touching story about the human-canine bond between the narrator and a huge Great Dane but also involves much meditation on writing as a profession and the universal concerns of humanity. Looking back at her writing career, Nunez talks about her beliefs as a writer, her observation of the contemporary literary scene, her evaluation of the status of fiction in the current era, her teaching experiences in writing programs, and her personal story as a child of immigrants and a former assistant to Susan Sontag. According to Nunez, a life of solitude is conducive to writing books, and experiences of frustration are normal for a writer. However, she maintains that writing should be seen as a vocation instead of a means of self-advancement. With respect to new trends in literary culture, Nunez believes the house of fiction does have many rooms, and the definition of a novel has become much broader.
Journal Article
The Bells in Their Silence
Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the \"German problem,\" World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own traveler's tale of Germany.
Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-WendeBerlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W. G. Sebald as a guide to the place of fragments and digressions in travel writing.
Replete with the flaneur's chance discoveries--and rich in the delights of the enduring and the ephemeral, of architecture and flood--The Bells in Their Silenceoffers that rare traveler's tale of Germany while testing the very limits of the travel narrative as a literary form.
eBook
Sigrid Nunez Returns After Her NBA Win
Terminal makes me think of bus stations, which makes me think of exhaust fumes and creepy men prowling for runaways.” [...]Nunez started What Are You Going Through at the Djerassi Resident Artists program in California. Marketing plans, McGrath says, are difficult to commit to given the uncertainties caused by the Covid-19 crisis, but she notes that the book has generated tremendous interest in-house and with booksellers.
Trade Publication Article
The Road Less Traveled
After struggling for a while, Laszlo meets the enigmatic Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), a man who will change his fate forever. The film tells the story of the author's mother, Eunice, whose husband disappeared under the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil when Marcelo was 11 years old. Swinton first entered Almodovar's universe in 2020 with his 30-minute character study \"The Human Voice.\"
Trade Publication Article
