Counternarratives - Softcover

Keene, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811225526 ISBN 13: 9780811225526

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

Ranging from the 17th century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. An Outtake chronicles an escaped slave s take on liberty and the American Revolution;"The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows" presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; "The Aeronauts" soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U.S. Civil War; Rivers, presents a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in "Acrobatique," the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back."

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Review:

Keene exerts superb control over his stories, costuming them in the style of Jorge Luis Borges. Yet he preserves the undercurrent of excitement and pathos that accompanies his characters' persecution and their groping toward freedom.--Sam Sacks

Counternarratives is an extraordinary work of literature. John Keene is a dense, intricate, and magnificent writer.--Christine Smallwood

About the Author:

John Keene is a former member of the Dark Room Writers Collective, a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, and the recipient of many awards and fellowships--including a MacArthur Genius Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Whiting Foundation Prize for fiction. Keene teaches at Rutgers.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0811225526
• ISBN 13: 9780811225526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320