ISBN: 9781646221318
Editorial: Catapult
Autor: Chung, Nicole
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 336
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within—and against—expectations of race, gender, health, and abilityBodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways.Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class—a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others’ expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave.Covering a wide range of experiences—from art modeling as a Black woman to nostalgia for a brutalizing high school sport, from the frightening upheaval of cancer diagnoses to the small beauties of funeral sex—this collection is intelligent, sensitive, and unflinchingly candid. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by writers at all stages of their careers, Body Language reflects the many ways in which we understand and inhabit our bodies.Featuring essays by A.E. Osworth, Andrea Ruggirello, Aricka Foreman, Austin Gilkeson, Bassey Ikpi, Bryan Washington, Callum Angus, Destiny O. Birdsong, Eloghosa Osunde, Forsyth Harmon, Gabrielle Bellot, Haley Houseman, Hannah Walhout, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Jess Zimmerman, Kaila Philo, Karissa Chen, Kayla Whaley, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Marcos Gonsalez, Marisa Crane, Melissa Hung, Natalie Lima, Nina Riggs, Rachel Charlene Lewis, Ross Showalter, s.e. smith, Sarah McEachern, Taylor Harris, and Toni Jensen.ReviewA BookPage Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of the Year"Essential." —Karla Strand, Ms."These writers bring insight and nuance to the weird and wonderful topic of embodiment." —Sarah Neilson, Shondaland"Body Language is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in a long time . . . The diversity of identities within this collection is astounding in the best of ways . . . These essays in Body Language are tinted windows sitting on 24s, a fierce subwoofer booming in the back—a vehicle demanding your engagement with its audacity, pushing you forward to a reckoning with your own body in this world." —shea wesley martin, Autostraddle"These honest and reflective essays will make you think about your own body and how you relate to it and perhaps even provoke some change." —Jaime Herndon, Book Riot"Body Language gathers 30 essays from Catapult’s archive that venture into that unspoken territory—with essays about weight, disability, athleticism, fertility, race, disordered eating, gender, and more—featuring writers you know and love and others you’ll be glad to encounter." —Eliza Smith, A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year"These smart, affecting, and vulnerable essays, chronicling a vast range of experiences, inspire and illuminate." —Booklist (starred review)"Many of the 30 essays will resonate with inquisitive, searching teen readers." —Booklist (YA) (starred review)"Chung’s writing and editing are a great gift to us all, and in Body Language she teams up with the also wonderful Matt Ortile to edit an anthology about embodiment, race, desire, illness, and more, with essays from some of the most exciting writers publishing nowadays." —An Electric Literature Most Anticipated Title of the Year"These lyrical and incisive essays cover a wide range of topics related to the human body, including birth, death, race, gender, size, disability, and fertility . . . Marked by the diversity of its contributor’s perspectives and the vibrancy of their pro
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