Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing (Discussions in Contemporary Culture , No 7)
 

Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing (Discussions in Contemporary Culture , No 7)

A Village Voice Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year, this "treasure chest of essays about the relationship of writing to cultural politics" (Utne Reader) includes contributions from Chinua Achebe, James Baldwin, Nadine Gordimer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walter Mosley, and Alice Walker, among others. Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series copublished with the Dia... (read more)

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Margaret Atwood’s essay, The Female Body, begins with the wonderfully playful request, “I agree, it’s a hot topic. But only one? Look around, there’s a wide range. Take my own, for instance. I get up in the morning. My topic feels like hell. I sprinkle it with water, brush parts of it, rub it with towels…I dump in the fuel and away goes my topic, my topical topic, my controversial topic, my capacious topic…”

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