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The Jiri Chronicles Other Fictions
Debra Di Blasi
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Description for The Jiri Chronicles Other Fictions
Paperback. A collection of stories, which challenges the stylistic and thematic boundaries of traditional literature, questioning what it means to be human - and awake - in the post-millenium. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
These audacious stories shine with artistic nuance and fearless emotional intensity. Tragic, lyrical, hilarious, and politically controversial, they exist in a world where fact is as strange as fiction, and fiction is often disguised as fact. ""The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions"" is divided into three sections, each a unique literary experiment. In ""Snapshots: A Genealogy in Flight,"" Debra Di Blasi draws inspiration from real family photographs to create a haunting portrait of successive generations of a fictionalized Midwest family. ""Hyperfictions"" features writing that is interactive and nonlinear, dissolving borders between poetry and prose, visual art and music. At the ... Read more
These audacious stories shine with artistic nuance and fearless emotional intensity. Tragic, lyrical, hilarious, and politically controversial, they exist in a world where fact is as strange as fiction, and fiction is often disguised as fact. ""The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions"" is divided into three sections, each a unique literary experiment. In ""Snapshots: A Genealogy in Flight,"" Debra Di Blasi draws inspiration from real family photographs to create a haunting portrait of successive generations of a fictionalized Midwest family. ""Hyperfictions"" features writing that is interactive and nonlinear, dissolving borders between poetry and prose, visual art and music. At the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661362
SKU
V9781573661362
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Debra Di Blasi
Debra Di Blasi is the recipient of many writing awards, including the James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the Thorpe Menn Book Award, and the Eyster Prize in Fiction. She is the author of Drought & Say What You Like, Prayers of an Accidental Nature, and Ugly Town. An accomplished screenwriter, she is also the ... Read more
Reviews for The Jiri Chronicles Other Fictions
The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions is chaotic, brilliant and, like Jiri Cech himself, possibly quite mad. With frenetic energy, Di Blasi mixes personal narrative with ad copy, traditional fiction with newspaper clippings, email messages, reportage, collage, and scholarship. The resulting concoction is consistently surprising, challenging, invigorating, and, most surprisingly of all, often deeply moving. Di Blasi has a mind ... Read more