Bibliograph

How to read now, essays, Elaine Castillo

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Label

How to read now, essays, Elaine Castillo

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

How to read now

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Elaine Castillo

Sub title

essays

Summary

How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman's reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy -- within ourselves, and with each other

Target audience

adult

Creator