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ISBN-10: 0811229734
ISBN-13: 9780811229739
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 05/04/2021
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.40" H

Personhood

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Overview

Whether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the “invasive species crisis,” Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection, Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field’s essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals, and other historical actors, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status.

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Between the inward tension of the point and the outward push of the line, Thalia Field maps a force field of relations, power games, shifting configurations, in a language both cool and intense, and with a surveyor's precision.–Rosmarie Waldrop
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811229734
ISBN-13: 9780811229739
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 05/04/2021
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.40" H
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