Margaret Randall

More Than Things (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

More Than Things is a collection of essays on a variety of political, cultural, and literary issues, all linked by Margaret Randall's attention to power: its use, misuse, and impact on how we live our lives. There are texts on sex, fashion, food, LGBT rights, automobiles, forgiving, women's self-image, writing, books, and more. Two of the essays provide glimpses into present-day Cuba and Tunisia. She reflects on her family; her romantic partners; and the revolutionaries, writers, artists, and activists she has known personally and admired: Roque Dalton, Meridel LeSueur, and Haydee Santamaria. Randall's writings move in unexpected directions, evoked by the "e;things"e; and ideas in her life: objects picked up around the world, her children's names, family heirlooms, artistic practices, dreams, poems, and memories. Elegantly weaving together the personal and the political, More Than Things is a tour de force by one of America's most formidable and elegiac writers and political activists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803249332
• Artikelnr.: 55281552

Autorenporträt

Margaret Randall is a writer and photographer. She has written dozens of books of memoir, poetry, oral history, and essays, in addition to translations, edited anthologies, and photography books. Her most recent works include To Change the World: My Years in Cuba, First Laugh: Essays 2000-2009 (Nebraska, 2011), Che on My Mind, and The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Magical Seam
Shaping My Words
Things
Roque Dalton: Myth, Man, Martyr, and Poet Who Defined an Era
Closing the Gap
What's in a Name?
New Map of Wonder to Explore
Horizon
Sex
Wheels
Our Table
What Am I Going to Wear?
Do You Really Believe All That?
The Courage It Takes
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Lord Power
There's Plenty of Time for That Later
What Are They Afraid Of?
Too Late Because
Keeping Us Safe
Passports and Me
Forgiver's Dilemma
Going Places
Cuban Postcards
Tunisian Postcards
Goose Quill to Thought-Capture, Stopping at Books
Coyote Grin
“Star Built Memory,” Last Words of Meridel LeSueur
Not for Myself
Notes