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Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent | 
| Author: Thomas Glave
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 216
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0816646805
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.385
EAN: 9780816646807
ASIN: 0816646805
Publication Date: January 30, 2007
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Product Description
In these lyrical and powerful essays, Thomas Glave draws on his experiences as a politically committed, gay Jamaican American to deliver a condemnation of the prejudices, hatreds, and inhumanities that persist in the United States and elsewhere. Exposing the hypocrisies of liberal multiculturalism, Glave offers instead a politics of heterogeneity in which difference informs the theory and practice of democracy. At the same time, he experiments with language to provide a model of creative writing as a tool for social change. From the death of black gay poet Essex Hemphill to the revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib, Glave puts forth an ethical understanding of human rights to make vital connections across nations, races, genders, and sexualities.
Thomas Glave is assistant professor of English at SUNY Binghamton. He is author of Whose Song? and Other Stories.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A stylistically innovative essay collection May 30, 2008
A Careful Reader
WORDS TO OUR NOW is a stylistically innovative, powerfully written collection. Sometimes a writer's exploratory prose style marks his literary difference. Glave's prose has a recursive effect as if his language requires both writing and re-writing--incessant, jeweling, ornate construction--to be adequately heard.
To my ear, Glave's stylizations seem like explorations of expository "beauty". The essays seem to be asking how can the lyrical, iridescent syntax and diction counter and augment the often painful concepts of LGBT and black liberation that the essays take on?
Extreme rhetorical stylization like this is so different that the usual literary fare that some readers may give it pause. But the style does not diminish the substance of Glave's meaning or the excellence of many of these essays.
 Book March 23, 2007
Skye M. Rowe
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hi. I'm find this book hard to read. It seems to be going on and on, using out landish words and not getting to the point. But, i'm still reading so well see.
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