Bright Felon Autobiography and Cities 1st Edition by Kazim Ali ISBN 081956916X 9780819569165
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ISBN 10: 081956916X
ISBN 13: 9780819569165
Author: Kazim Ali
This groundbreaking, transgenre work—part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past—is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally “autobiography” because the text itself becomes a form of writing the life, revealing secrets, and then, amid the shards and fragments of experience, dealing with the aftermath of such revelations. Bright Felon offers a new and active form of autobiography alongside such texts as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Lyn Hejinian’s My Life, and Etel Adnan’s In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country. A reader’s companion is available at http://brightfelonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/
Bright Felon Autobiography and Cities 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Early Life and Family
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Childhood in Context
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Formative Influences
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Early Encounters with Urban Spaces
Chapter 2: School, Youth, and Rebellion
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Education and Social Expectations
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Acts of Defiance
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Early Awareness of Urban Society
Chapter 3: First Encounters with the Law
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Minor Offenses
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Encounters with Authority
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Reflection on Morality and Justice
Chapter 4: Urban Landscapes
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The City as Character
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Streets, Neighborhoods, and Social Networks
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Memory and Place
Chapter 5: Work, Survival, and Economy
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Jobs and Hustles
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The Economics of City Life
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Personal Ambitions vs. Urban Reality
Chapter 6: Relationships and Community
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Family Ties and Estrangements
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Friends, Allies, and Enemies
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Community Structures in the City
Chapter 7: Incarceration and Reflection
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Time in Prison
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Writing as Self-Discovery
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Lessons from Confinement
Chapter 8: Life After Release
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Reintegration into Urban Life
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Rebuilding Identity
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Future Hopes
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