Buch, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 113 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
Buch, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 113 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
ISBN: 978-0-299-34084-1
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
Moving beyond a biting indictment of American popular culture, Jameka Williams captures the reader’s gaze and stares right back: “I’m sorry, America, but I’m rich in baby oil & paperback novels only these days. So finish paying for me with what is mint. No conditions.” In this stunning debut collection, Williams offers a deeply personal investigation into how Americans (herself included) have been duped, buying into classism, sexism, and racist beauty ideals, while sacrificing the freedom of self-love and self-determination. With whip-fast profanity and fiery humor, she charts a tender, exalting, and vibrant path to freedom from mirrors, stages, and screens.
Fiercely feminist, Black, American, and powerful, Williams speaks for a generation of obsessive social media influencers and consumers, revealing the complex ways in which we are all actors, witnesses, and victims in our public and private performances. Though we may be permanent residents of this soulless cultural landscape, this stunning collection refuses to let it define us.
I am not the same machine which came rambling
off the conveyor belt, hugging the bolts & wires
spilling from her vivisection. I’m last year’s model
with a sleeker, softer system of cool disdain for
my Internet addictions.
—Excerpt from "I Intend to Outlast"
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
- American Sex Cento
- Scopophilia
- “People are dying, Kim”
- Intelligent Women
- Brief Notes on the End of the World, Women
- The All-American Girl
- “But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men”
- Plastic White Girl
- I Intend to Outlast
- Consider an Animal
- Ignition
- “There’s a lot of baggage that comes with us, but it’s like Louis Vuitton baggage (you always
- want it)”
- Black, or Apologies for the Line “Sally Hemings in Leggings”
- The All-American Girl
- New Black Venus
- My Sister Says (“Everyone can catch this smoke”)
- Original Sin
- The Kardashians for a Better America
- American Sex Tape
- Black, or Even Now I Eat Like a Butcher’s Dog
- Birth of the Nation
- Scopophobia
- I’m Not the Queen of the Selfie
- Woman Devours His Gaze
- This World Is Not Good
- Black, or I Sit on My Front Porch in the Projects, Waiting, on God
- Erotic Women Do It
- “Now that I’ve survived, when does living begin?”
- The Future Is Female
- Black, or There Is No Nation Both Under God & Above Ground
- Who Will Save Kim Kardashian?
- I Intend to Outlast
- War & Marriage
- The All-American Girl
- #Free Britney, Brittany, BritnÉe & Brittani, Too
- Black, or The Natural World Doesn’t Know Me
- Nothing Is Promised
- “I can’t dwell?!?”
- The New Me
- The All-American Girl
- “The new american girl doll is no longer a slave”
- Since I Laid My Burden Down
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
