Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays, Lopez, Barry ; Solnit, Rebecca

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca (y)
Название: Faraway nearby
ISBN: 1783787368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783787364
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others

Автор: Solnit Rebecca
Название: Men Explain Things to Me
ISBN: 1783780797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783780792
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca
Название: A Field Guide To Getting Lost (Canons Edition)
ISBN: 1786890518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786890511
Издательство: Canongate
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Описание: Solnit`s revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics

Автор: Solnit Rebecca, Atwan Robert
Название: The Best American Essays 2019
ISBN: 1328465802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781328465801
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.

"Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year--sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies--and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found "how discovery can be a deep pleasure."
The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others.

Автор: Solnit Rebecca
Название: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
ISBN: 0143118072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143118077
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters" (The New York Times Book Review) from the author of Orwell's Roses

"Solnit argues that disasters are opportunities as well as oppressions, each one a summons to rediscover the powerful engagement and joy of genuine altruism, civic life, grassroots community, and meaningful work." --San Francisco Chronicle

Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune

The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca
Название: Orwell`s Roses
ISBN: 0593083369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593083369
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood

"A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker." --Claire Messud, Harper's

"Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way." --Vogue

A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world

"In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses." So be-gins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power.

Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit's account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell's life journeys through his writing and his actions--from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.

Through Solnit's celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell's own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti's roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell's slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid's examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit's portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca (y)
Название: Wanderlust
ISBN: 178378735X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783787357
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca
Название: Orwell`s Roses
ISBN: 0593083377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593083376
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Solnit Rebecca
Название: Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
ISBN: 0593083334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593083338
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "A marvel: a memoir that details her awakening as a feminist, an environmentalist, and a citizen of the world. Every single sentence is exquisite." --Maris Kreizman, Vulture

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy.

Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women's rights.

She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca
Название: Wanderlust
ISBN: 1844675580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844675586
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure, for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, this book homes in on the walkers whose everyday acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers.

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca
Название: Recollections Of My Nonexisten
ISBN: 0593083342 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593083345
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves; the gay community that presented a new model of what else gender, family, and joy could mean; and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West.

Beyond being a memoir, Solnit's book is also a passionate argument: that women are not just impacted by personal experience, but by membership in a society where violence against women pervades. Looking back, she describes how she came to recognize that her own experiences of harassment and menace were inseparable from the systemic problem of who has a voice, or rather who is heard and respected and who is silenced--and how she was galvanized to use her own voice for change.

Автор: Solnit Rebecca
Название: Whose Story Is This?: Essays at the Intersection
ISBN: 1642590185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642590180
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 14670.00 T
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.