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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Hardcover
Letters & EssaysCriminologyWomen's Studies
ISBN13: 9781608463299
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Sep 11 2018
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, Kirkus Prize
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.
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