Annotations (New Directions Paperbook)
John Keeneによる『Annotations』。African American familiesやAfrican American youthを軸に、Saint Louis (Mo.)まで射程に入れる戯曲。
作品情報
African American familiesのなかで、African American youthが立ち上がる。
John Keeneによる『Annotations』は、African American familiesとAfrican American youthを軸に、Saint Louis (Mo.)や文学へと読みを広げる戯曲。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- 発売日
- 1995-10-17
- ページ数
- 96ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.21 x 1.02 x 20.57 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780811213042
- ISBN-10
- 0811213048
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Gay & Lesbian/Literature & Fiction/Fiction/Gay
An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane , the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles--from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.
John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Annotations (1995) and Counternarratives (2015), both published by New Directions. Counternarratives received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor and serves as department chair at Rutgers University-Newark
レビュー
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A beautifully written book but not quite the masterpiece I expected after reading reviews of it from master writers like Samuel Delaney. I recommend it for its style and insists but somehow feel it falls short of genius that has been used to describe this writer.
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