Riots by Danielle Cadena Deulen

Riots by Danielle Cadena Deulen

Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen's artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender.

In Aperture, she considers how she has contributed to her autistic brother's isolation from family and from the world. Theft investigates her mother's romantic stories about conquistadors in the context of the Mexican heritage of her biracial family. Throughout the collection Deulen experiments formally, alternating traditional narrative with still life essays and collages that characterize a particular time, place, and sensibility.

Deulen is remarkable in her ability to present her own confusion and culpability, and she also writes with compassion for others, such as her own suicidal and unpredictable father or a boy in her class who sets the teacher's hair on fire. In part because she herself so poorly fits the identities she might be assigned--white in appearance, she is in fact half Latina; raised in a poor neighborhood, she has acquired an education associated with the middle class--Deulen sees otherness as a useless category and the enemy of intimacy, which she embraces despite its risks.

The Riots seeks to create what Frost called a momentary stay against confusion, and Deulen investigates her own act of creation even as she uses the craft of writing to put parentheses around the chaos of continuous living.

There are moments of transcendent prose in this manuscript that elevate it far beyond what we might expect of it at first blushIt manages to become more profound, and more beautiful, the more desperate and tragic its trajectory. Finally, it is a triumph of wisdom and great art.

|

There is general agreement that adverse childhood experiences leave permanent scars, but with a person as gifted as Danielle Cadena Deulen, the result is transformative for writer and reader alike. . . . Deulen poignantly and poetically relates the effects such experiences had on her, her family, and those around her. It is a sad, but beautiful, and, ultimately uplifting compilation.

|

Fierce, tender, explosively honest, Danielle Cadena Deulen's radiant debut sings like a prose poem and lingers like a fever dream. In the liminal world of The Riots, the face of a dead girl under the bridge worries a hole in your mind though you never see her, mercy shatters trust, and a boy's stuttering confession of love exposes his sister's crimes against him. Through the grace and devastation of shared memory, Deulen dares to know the dispossessed, to re-invent her father's life and try to save him as a child. She remembers what cannot be, transfiguring herself through the passion of desire.

|

The Riots is rooted firmly in that world of hurt, mired in the struggle to understand and accept the past, and to do so—crucially—without being defeated by the onslaught of negative memory.

|

Danielle Cadena Deulen has hit her stride and shows no signs of slowing. In a one-two punch, she has demonstrated her strenth in prose and verse with recent successes in the awards circle. . . . One might think Deulen was born with a lucky streak, yet the linked essays in The Riots prove otherwise. . . . Throughout, Deulen seems both in charge of her determination yet powerless to change what life has allotted her. The result is a collection that encapsulates the awkwardness and discomfort of the author's past, present, and future.

Deulen, Danielle Cadena: - Danielle Cadena Deulen's previously published books include a collection of poems Lovely Asunder (U. of Arkansas Press, 2011), which won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award; and a memoir, The Riots (U. of Georgia Press, 2011), which won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award. She has been the recipient of a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Danielle lives with her family in Salem, Oregon where she teaches in the English Department at Willamette University.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780820338835
ISBN 10	0820338834
Titel	Riots
Autor	Danielle Cadena Deulen
Serie	Association Of Writers And Writing Programs Award For Creative Nonfiction
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	University of Georgia Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-05-30
Seitenanzahl	192
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
Hinweis	Nicht verfügbar