| Description |
340 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
Author's note, or a Virgo clarifies things -- How to read now -- Reading teaches us empathy, and other fictions -- Honor the treaty -- The limits of white fantasy -- Main character syndrome -- "Reality is all we have to love" -- Autobiography in Asian film, or what we talk about when we talk about representation -- The children of Polyphemus. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340). |
| Summary |
"An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Reading.
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Literature and society.
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Literature and race.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Books and reading -- Sociological aspects.
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Books and reading -- Sociological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00836473
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Imperialism in literature. (OCoLC)fst00968142
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Literature and race. (OCoLC)fst02002518
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Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
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Reading. (OCoLC)fst01090626
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
9780593489635 (hardcover) |
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0593489632 (hardcover) |
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9780593489642 (ebook) |
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