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Blanket de Kara Thompson

Blanket: Object Lessons

Autor Kara Thompson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2018
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures. Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781628922653
ISBN-10: 1628922656
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 121 x 165 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

The Object Lessons series, published in association with The Atlantic, explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and shows how everyday objects can teach us things about ourselves and the modern world

Notă biografică

Kara Thompson is an Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. Her essays have appeared in Tine House, Avidly, The Philosophical Salon, and The Atlantic.

Cuprins

A Note to the ReaderPreface: ConvoluteUnfold 11. WitnessUnfold 22. FoldsUnfold 33. Transmission, ExtractionUnfold 44. SecurityUnfold 55. Under CoverUnfold 66. CarriersUnfold 7AcknowledgmentsBibliographyList of FiguresIndex

Recenzii

There is nothing trivial about this little book. It addresses one ostensibly ordinary object - a blanket - but quickly turns your ideas on their heads . Author Kara Thompson traverses a continent of meanings and implications, focusing on various artworks that use some type of blanket motif, or actual blankets, to illustrate metaphorical blankets, especially ones that deal with death. You will appreciate her brilliant analysis of these artworks and their synthesis with themes of colonialism, subjugation, memory, and survival, which is sensitive and detailed. Entwined through the story is a very personal and vulnerable story, in which Thompson wraps these blankets' abstraction into her individual experience. The book will stay with you for a long time.
Thompson has contributed a fine addition to the Object Lessons series and provided some interesting starting points from which scores of other ideas can be explored.
The gift of these volumes is how they tease out the unexpected associations and implications of their subjects, and Kara Thompson's Blanket is no exception . Thompson weaves together in her Blanket dichotomous ideas about blankets-art versus utility, hard shells versus soft wraps, infection versus protection-to illuminate the ways in which these may all be different sides of the same thing . Kara Thompson continues through her "unfoldings" to educate and surprise readers with new threads to follow and contemplate long after the small, but densely woven Blanket ends.
Liquid brilliance blankets this book, making its forays endlessly moving-and often surprising. Simply exquisite in all its folds.
Kara Thompson's Blanket is an elegant, nearly seamless weaving through Native politics and histories, American violence, personal loss and remembrance, psychoanalysis and healing, geology, artworks and literature--varied stitches and detail toward the greater themes and design of comfort, protection, trauma, loss, and the disparate turnings of human living. Kara Thompson has stirred a deep desire in me to understand. . . to understand what? I ask myself. It is not the what, so much as the what is not: What is not seen, but within the folds. What is not often considered, but like a blanket, felt with 'a kind of muscle memory [. . .] the trace of habitation.' What is rarely accounted for in language, signifiers and terms, such as the 'affect, kinship, ceremony, inheritance, story' that imbue anything with real meaning. This book draws unexpected connections and links from one subject to the next. And in the spaces between those connections, there is a magic I have, until now, only known to exist in poetry. From one paragraph to the next, I discover something more of myself, hidden or maybe even protected, both grieving and comforted, tightly threaded within all these blankets.