Called Back by Mary Cappello

Called Back by Mary Cappello

Foreword Book of the Year Award
Independent Publishers Award (IPY)
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Publishing Triangle Award Finalist
GAMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest for Getting the News, The Georgia Review, Summer 2009
Notable Essay of the Year Citation in Best American Essays 2010 for Getting the News
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guerilla Girls On Tour and by WILA: Women in Literary Arts and Letters

An extended meditation on the nature of love and the nature of time inside illness, Called Back is both a narrative and non-narrative experiment in prose. The book moves through the standard breast cancer treatment trajectory (diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), with the aim of discovering unexpected vectors of observation, meaning and desire inside each phase of the typically mandated four-part ritual. A lyrical feminist critique of living with cancer at the turn of the twenty-first century in the United States, the book looks through the lens of cancer to discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away. Offering original exegeses of the work of Marsden Hartley, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust, Called Back relies on these artists' queer aesthetics to tease the author back to life. What might a person tutored as a reader of signs see inside breast cancer's paces, protocols, and regimes? What does the experience occlude, and what can we afford to liberate?

The first chapter paves the way for the book's central emphases: a meditation on the nature of news and the new, on noticing, on messages--including those that the body itself relies upon in the assumption of disease--and the interpretive methods we bring to them in medical crisis. Language is paramount for how we understand and act on the disease, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we treat it, Cappello argues.

Working at the borders of memoir, literary nonfiction, and cultural analysis, Called Back aims to displace tonal and affective norms-- infantilizing or moralizing, redemptive, sentimental or cute--with reverie, rage, passionate intensity, intelligence, and humor.

Mary Cappello's three previous works of literary nonfiction are Awkward, a Los Angeles Times bestseller; Called Back, a critical memoir on cancer that won a ForeWord Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publisher Book Award; and the memoir Night Bloom. A recipient of the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, she is a former Fulbright lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow) and currently a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Providence.

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ISBN 13	9781593501501
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Titel	Called Back
Autor	Mary Cappello
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Alyson Publications Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-11-12
Seitenanzahl	207
Preise	Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Memoir/Biography) 2009, Commended for IndieFab awards (Autobiography/Memoir) 2009, Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Women's Issues) 2010
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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