American Precariat : Parables of Exclusion / edited by Zeke Caligiuri [and 10 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caligiuri, Zeke, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Coffee House Press, [2023]

Summary:

Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M. Johnson, Kiese Laymon, Valeria Luiselli, Kao Kalia Yang, and more, with a foreword by Zeke Caligiuri and an introduction by Eula Biss. "This is a volume edited by the imprisoned, because the history of class has always been written by the powerful." This groundbreaking anthology of essays edited by incarcerated writers takes a sharp look at the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States. Featuring accounts that include gig work as a delivery driver, homelessness among trans youth, and life with immense student loan debt, in addition to transcripts of insightful discussions between the editors, American Precariat demonstrates how various and often invisible extreme instability can be. With the understanding that widespread recognition of collective precarity is an urgent concern, the anthology situates each individual portrait within societal structures of exclusion, scarcity, and criminality. These essays write through the silence around class to enumerate the risks that our material conditions leave us no choice but to take. A rendering of the present moment told from below, American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division. In doing so, it offers healing for some of the world's fractures.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Zeke Caligiuri-Foreword

Eula Biss-Introduction

Jennifer Bowen-A Note on Conversations

Michael Torres-Piñatas

Alice Paige-A GenderPunk Love Letter

Inara Verzemnieks-The Last Days of the Baldock

Sarith Peou-The Promised Land

Anonymous-For a Solidarity of Condition and Position: A Report from a Delivery Driver in Manhattan

Kristin Collier-Debt Demands a Body

Angela Pelster-Saskatoons

Lauren Markham-Can We Move Our Forests in Time to Save Them?

Lacy M. Johnson-Shape of the Wound

Steve Almond-The View from Mount Failure

Tm "Redd" Warren-There Are No Bars in Rush City

Kao Kalia Yang-Kuv Niam Zoo Nkauj: My Mother Is Beautiful

Kiese Laymon-How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

Valeria Luiselli-Tell Me How It Ends

Acknowledgments

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781566896962

1566896967

OCLC:

1401059296