[EPUB] Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises by Rebecca Solnit

0.00 Avg rating0 Votes
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Genres: Nonfiction Books, Feminism Books, Writing & Essays
Authors:
Pages: 188 pages
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN10: 1608469468
ISBN13: 9781608469468
Tags: Nonfiction eBooks, Feminism eBooks, Writing & Essays eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub
Language: en
National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction
"Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading." --The New Republic

"Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy." --Elle

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change.

The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.

Reviews

Required fields are marked *. Your email address will not be published.