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Jacqueline Bishop The Gymnast and Other Positions (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- The Gymnast and Other Positions
- Title
- The Gymnast and Other Positions
- EAN
- 9781845233150
- ISBN
- 9781845233150
- Release Date
- 11/30/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Book Title
- Gymnast and Other Positions : Stories, Essays, Interviews
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Literary Collections
- Topic
- Caribbean & Latin American, American / African American, General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 5.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 206 Pages
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Winner of the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Non Fiction. Beginning with the promptings of the erotic title story, Jacqueline Bishop came to see the hybrid format of this book, with its mix of short stories, essays and interviews could begin to encompass her desire to see where she had arrived at in a creative career that encompassed being published as a novelist, poet, critic and exhibited as an artist. How did these sundry positions connect together? What aspects of both conscious intention and unconscious, interior motivations did they reveal? The stories, none more than a few pages long, can be read at several levels. The mentor who teaches the child gymnast a contortionist's erotic positions, the adoptive mother who shoots down ex-partner and adopted child when the former debauches the latter as the subject of pornographic photographs; the relationship between tattooist and the woman who offers her naked body for decoration are all sharply and persuasively realized as short fictions, but they also hint at a writer's interior dialogue and can be read as parables about the relationship between the free imagination and the controlling and even potentially betraying power of art. The essays explore more conscious areas of expression. They deal with the experiences of maternal separation, family histories and mythologies, the search for grounding in the life of a Jamaican grandmother, the relationship with a male writing mentor, travel to Morocco, the inspiration of the writing lives of Jamaicans Claude McKay and Roger Mais and how 9/11 showed her how deeply she had become a New Yorker. The interviews, which investigate sometimes her writing, sometimes her art, and occasionally both, provide context for the stories and the essays. They are at their most revealing when interviewers ask Jacqueline Bishop questions she hasn't asked herself.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press, The Limited
ISBN-10
1845233158
ISBN-13
9781845233150
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215846821
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gymnast and Other Positions : Stories, Essays, Interviews
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, American / African American, General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
206 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
5.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Ps3602.I758
Reviews
"Her visual fascination with looping stories over and through each other has spilled over to the written word, creating her own patchwork quilt of literature. This patchwork aesthetic has long been a defining feature of Bishop's studio creations and now, to come full circle, has finally found a place in her writing as well." --Robyn Stephenson, Susumba
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2016-436679
Dewey Decimal
818.6/08
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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