Call Them by Their True Names : American Crises (and Essays)

Rebecca Solnit

ISBN 10: 160846329X / ISBN 13: 9781608463299

Published by Haymarket Books Sep 2018, 2018

About this Item

Neuware - 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.

Seller Inventory # 9781608463299

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Call Them by Their True Names : American Crises (and Essays)
• Publisher: Haymarket Books Sep 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160846329X
• ISBN 13: 9781608463299
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 16D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 417 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Orwell’s Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act.