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We Press Ourselves Plainly
Nathalie Stephens
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Description for We Press Ourselves Plainly
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 127.
"We Press Ourselves Plainly is a particularly affecting development in an already virtuosic, Ovidian body of work because it renews and makes newly visible crucial continuities: between Continental and North American Postmodernism, the Nouveau Roman and New Narrative, WWII and Operation Enduring Freedom. From out of agile and Celinian ellipses, Nathalie Stephens creates an asynchronous, transnational 'discordance...in time,' a hugely amplified recent past whose familiarity haunts us not as nostalgia but as trauma. Among 'immaculate and catastrophic' ruins and lacunae, having forgotten 'the sentence for behaving,' the narrator embarks upon an 'adverse and objectionable' litany of a history whose abjections ... Read more
"We Press Ourselves Plainly is a particularly affecting development in an already virtuosic, Ovidian body of work because it renews and makes newly visible crucial continuities: between Continental and North American Postmodernism, the Nouveau Roman and New Narrative, WWII and Operation Enduring Freedom. From out of agile and Celinian ellipses, Nathalie Stephens creates an asynchronous, transnational 'discordance...in time,' a hugely amplified recent past whose familiarity haunts us not as nostalgia but as trauma. Among 'immaculate and catastrophic' ruins and lacunae, having forgotten 'the sentence for behaving,' the narrator embarks upon an 'adverse and objectionable' litany of a history whose abjections ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nightboat Books United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780984459803
SKU
V9780984459803
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About Nathalie Stephens
NATHALIE STEPHENS (NS) is the author of numerous books in English and French. She lives in Chicago.
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