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Proxies : A Memoir In Twenty-four Attempts
Paperback Edition: 1
Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics - Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br'er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenus - that begin to unpack the essayist himself and his life's rotating concerns: sex and sexuality, poetry
and poetics, subject positions in American labour (not excluding academia), and his upbringing in working-class, Primitive Baptist, North Carolina.
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In Proxies an original constraint, a 'total suppression of recourse to authoritative sources', engineers Brian Blanchfield's disarming mode of independent intellection.
Pages : 192
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Publication date : 2017-08-29
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure