Jessa Crispin es la editora y fundadora de Bookslut.com, una plataforma donde sus perspicaces comentarios sobre literatura han florecido. Su escritura ha adornado las páginas de publicaciones de renombre, incluyendo The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian y The Toronto Globe and Mail. Crispin profundiza en el núcleo de las obras literarias, explorando sus temas y resonancia cultural con una aguda mirada analítica. Su perspectiva ofrece a los lectores una comprensión profunda del intrincado panorama de las letras contemporáneas.
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John Barrett appears at the home of Sally and Mark Driscoll. It emerges that Barrett is 'dangerously obsessed' with pinning the blame for his wife's accident on someone. Barrett strips away the conflicting facets of the Driscolls' lives. As suddenly as he entered Barrett slips away leaving behind shattered faith, broken trust and a marriage that will never heal
When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she left Chicago and took off for Berlin. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding.Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their origins and start afresh.She reflects on Maud Gonne fomenting revolution, on Nora Barnacl, Rebecca West, Margaret Anderson and Jean Rhys.
"Jessa Crispin melds personal narrative with history and current events to explore the dark side of Kansas, where she grew up. She meditates on why the American Midwest still enjoys an esteemed position in the US's imagination about itself, why its foundational myths are the myths of what it means to be "American." And while we may romanticize aspects of Midwestern life-the nuclear family, the pioneering attitude, the small town friendliness-the realities, she argues, are harsher: so-called Midwestern values cover up a long history of oppression and control over Native Americans, over women, over the economically disadvantaged. Her subjects range from The Wizard of Oz to the White race, from chastity to rape, from radical militias and recent terrorist plots to Utopian communities; from the murders of the Clutter family made famous in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, to her own horror when a beloved art teacher inexplicably one night slaughtered his wife and three daughters and killed himself. Her pursuit takes her back to the Civil War, John Brown, and the immigration of German religious communities to the Midwest; she then ferries across the Atlantic Ocean to Amsterdam to visit a lay seminary for women where, since the Reformation, they have found sanctuary from violence and domestic abuse. Yet, despite the darkness, which is Crispin's stock in trade, there is a kind of bleak redemption at the heart of this project, the insight that, no matter where you go, no matter how far from home you roam, the place you came from is always with you, "like it or not.""-- Provided by publisher
Do you believe women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist ... or so the feminists keep insisting. Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism-- and a bracing manifesto for revolution. She accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice-- and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression.
Ste feministka? Veríte, že ženy sú ľudské bytosti a zaslúžia si rovnaké práva ako muži? Ak áno, potom ste feministka... Naozaj? Naozaj je to také jednoduché? Kritička Jessa Crispin vo svojej knihe tvrdí, že hnutie za ženské práva a oslobodenie obetovalo význam a túžiac po všeobecnom prijatí sa zmenilo na banálnu, zdvorilú, disneyovsky neškodnú pózu, ktorá si nedovolí spochybniť status quo. Vo svojom odvážnom manifeste žiada viac: úplnú deštrukciu systému utláčania a toho, o čom dnes ľudia hovoria ako o „feminizme“.
