On Immunity: An Inoculation - Softcover

Biss, Eula

 
9781913097400: On Immunity: An Inoculation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1913097404 ISBN 13: 9781913097400
Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear – fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in your children’s air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire’s Candide , Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag’s AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is an inoculation against our fear and a moving account of how we are all interconnected – our bodies and our fates.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, which received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and On Immunity. Her essays have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and The Best Creative Nonfiction, as well as in the Believer and Harper’s. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Biss holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa. She teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.

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Verlag
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1913097404
ISBN 13 
9781913097400
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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