Read Defacing the Monument

Defacing the Monument

Susan Briante

4.9/5 (24095 ratings)

Description:from the Noemi Press Infidel Series:Defacing the Monument opens with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing, a proceeding during which as many as 75 undocumented migrants are criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to serve jail time prior to deportation. It’s an attempt to bear witness to what happens to those who do not hold the “correct” documents as a way to show texts always bear the marks of power. Documentary poetics offers a tradition and a form through which a writer can situate events or experiences within broad social and historical contexts. It can provide a space to record, to unearth, to witness, and to contextualize. But we can’t fetishize the document. And we must use it with an eye toward our own complicity and participation in the systems we wish to investigate. Part documentary act, part lyric essay, part criticism, Defacing the Monument enacts the possibilities and limits of documentary impulses.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Defacing the Monument. To get started finding Defacing the Monument, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 161

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Noemi Press

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1934819905

Description: from the Noemi Press Infidel Series:Defacing the Monument opens with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing, a proceeding during which as many as 75 undocumented migrants are criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to serve jail time prior to deportation. It’s an attempt to bear witness to what happens to those who do not hold the “correct” documents as a way to show texts always bear the marks of power. Documentary poetics offers a tradition and a form through which a writer can situate events or experiences within broad social and historical contexts. It can provide a space to record, to unearth, to witness, and to contextualize. But we can’t fetishize the document. And we must use it with an eye toward our own complicity and participation in the systems we wish to investigate. Part documentary act, part lyric essay, part criticism, Defacing the Monument enacts the possibilities and limits of documentary impulses.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Defacing the Monument. To get started finding Defacing the Monument, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Defacing the Monument

Defacing the Monument

More Books

The Market Wonders

The Market Wonders

Utopia Minus

Utopia Minus

The Market Wonders (The New Series) by Susan Briante (2016-02-22)

The Market Wonders (The New Series) by Susan Briante (2016-02-22)

Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press: the New Series, 17)

Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press: the New Series, 17)

El Mercado se pregunta

El Mercado se pregunta

The Market is a Parasite that Looks Like A Nest

The Market is a Parasite that Looks Like A Nest

New & Selected: 13 Questions for the Next Economy

New & Selected: 13 Questions for the Next Economy

Neotropics: A Romance in Field Notes (Belladonna* #52)

Neotropics: A Romance in Field Notes (Belladonna* #52)

Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing

Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing