Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan Poetry

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Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

This groundbreaking, transgenre workâ€”part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined pastâ€”is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally â€œautobiographyâ€ because the text itself becomes a form of writing the life, revealing secrets, and then, amid the shards and fragments of experience, dealing with the aftermath of such revelations. Bright Felon offers a new and active form of autobiography alongside such texts as Theresa Hak Kyung Chaâ€™s Dictee, Lyn Hejinianâ€™s My Life, and Etel Adnanâ€™s In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country. A readerâ€™s companion is available at http://brightfelonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/

Country	USA
Author	Kazim Ali
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780819572769
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0819572764
Label	Wesleyan
Manufacturer	Wesleyan
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	112
PublicationDate	2012-08-15
Publisher	Wesleyan
Studio	Wesleyan
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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