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Blanket
Artikel-Nr:
9781628922653
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.09.2018
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Kara Thompson
Gewicht:
179 g
Format:
165x120x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Kara Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, College of William and Mary, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and the Atlantic.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures. Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Blanket explores covers in everyday contexts, "New World" colonial encounters, contemporary art, emerging economies, and collecting practices to show how the blanket is not just an object of utility, but one that provides lessons in metaphor, viruses, and secrets.
Explores the blanket as an object which keeps a body alive as much as it conceals death
A Note to the ReaderPreface: ConvoluteUnfold 11. WitnessUnfold 22. FoldsUnfold 33. Transmission, ExtractionUnfold 44. SecurityUnfold 55. Under CoverUnfold 66. CarriersUnfold 7AcknowledgmentsBibliographyList of FiguresIndex