Hoagland Sadie Hoagland

American Grief in Four Stages (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

American Grief in Four Stages is a collection of stories that imagines trauma as a space in which language fails us and narrative escapes us. These stories play with form and explore the impossibility of elegy and the inability of our culture to communicate grief, or sympathy, outside of cliche.One narrator, for example, tries to understand her brother s suicide by excavating his use of idioms. Other stories construe grief and trauma in much subtler ways the passing of an era or of a daughter s childhood, the seduction of a neighbor, the inability to have children. From a dinner party with Aztecs to an elderly shut-in s recollection of her role in the Salem witch trials, these are stories that defy expectations and enrich the imagination. As a whole, this collection asks the reader to envisage the ways in which we suffer as both unbearably painful and unbearably American.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949199222
• Artikelnr.: 72465336

Autorenporträt

Sadie Hoagland is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the former editor of Quarterly West. Her work has appeared in Alice Blue Review, The Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal, South Dakota Review, Sakura Review, Grist, Oyez Review, Passages North, Five Points, The Fabulist, and elsewhere. Learn more at sadiehoagland.com.