Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan Poetry

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
Brand Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer Wesleyan University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780819572769
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan Poetry Series)