Counternarratives
1st Edition
Published on 6. April 2016
400 pages
978-1-910695-14-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. 'An Outtake' chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty and the American Revolution; 'The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows' presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; 'The Aeronauts' soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U.S. Civil War; 'Rivers,' presents a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in 'Acrobatique,' the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
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Counternarratives
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John R. Keene was born in St. Louis in 1965. He graduated from the St. Louis Priory School, Harvard College, and New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. In 1989, Mr. Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of Annotations, and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions, as well as several other works, including the poetry collection Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel Letters from a Seducer. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark.
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- MANNAHATTA
- ON BRAZIL, OR DÉNOUEMENT: THE LONDÔNIAS-FIGUEIRAS
- AN OUTTAKE FROM THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- A LETTER ON THE TRIALS OF THE COUNTERREFORMATION IN NEW LISBON
- GLOSS ON A HISTORY OF ROMAN CATHOLICS IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 1790-1825
- OR THE STRANGE HISTORY OF OUR LADY OF THE SORROWS
- II
- THE AERONAUTS
- RIVERS
- PERSONS AND PLACES
- ACROBATIQUE
- COLD
- BLUES
- ANTHROPOPHAGY
- III
- THE LIONS
- Acknowledgements
- Also published by Fitzcarraldo Editions
- About the Author
- Copyright
