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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815200103321

Titolo

Who will speak for America? / / edited by Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Temple University, , 2018

ISBN

1-4399-1625-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Disciplina

810.8/03273

Soggetti

American literature - 21st century

Protest literature, American - 21st century

United States Literary collections

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

In search of our future / Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin -- Acceptance speech / Eileen Myles -- America in winter / Joy Ladin -- How I should have known Trump would be elected / Carmen Maria Machado -- Teaching after Trump / Melissa Febos -- IUD / Liana Finck -- 20 January 2017 / Herman Beavers -- Signs / Diane Mckinney-Whetstone -- Morning question in bed after the women's marches across America / Adam Vines -- Four days / Sarah Rose Etter -- Seasons of grief / Tahneer Oksman -- When we see / KC Trommer -- Just to get by / Bassey Ikpi -- Theft / Fran Wilde -- Gaslighting / Liana Finck -- Three days / Ken Kalfus -- Terror? What is terror? / Liana Finck -- Four stories about fighting / Sandra Newman -- The accused / Krun Srun ; translated from the French and introduced by Madeleine Thien -- Yellow for ephemeral / Sam Miller -- The retinue of little abysses / Juan Martinez -- Reclaiming time / Airea Matthews -- Year of the rat / Marc Anthony Richardson -- Bullet points / Jericho Brown -- Domestic terrorism / Cynthia Atkins -- The legend of big and fine / Jericho Brown -- Who has the right to tell this story? / Liz Moore -- National pastime / Lynn Melnick -- Strange bedfellows / Nancy Hightower -- I enter the real memory / Alice Notley -- Who will speak for whom, America? / Edwin Torres -- On being American / Samira Ahmed -- The betweens / Cynthia Arrieu-King -- The alternatives / Liana Finck -- Riddle / Jericho Brown -- A simple letter to my American



friends = Una sencilla carta a mis amigos gringos / Carlos Jose Perez Samano -- Untitled : a comedy / Herman Beavers -- Pigskin, beauty, death and a huggable rat / Linh Dinh -- America / Craig Santos Perez -- U.S. v T.H.E.M. / Liana Finck -- I want milk, I want honey / Mohja Kahf -- Blood and spirit / Cynthia Dewi Oka -- America / Ana-Maurine Lara -- Life after / Adrienne Celt -- The gates to freedom / Rene Denfeld -- Struggle / Liana Finck -- The end of the incarnation / Malka Older -- If you can keep it / Scott Esposito -- Charlie and the aliens / Ganzeer -- Dreaming in crayon / Craig Santos Perez -- Because change was the ocean / Charlie Jane Anders.

Sommario/riassunto

"In prose, poetry, and graphic narrative, the contributors to this anthology tackle the questions of American identity and society, offering visions rooted in our history but attentive to our future"--