{"product_id":"american-precariat-parables-of-exclusion-paperback","title":"American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eZeke Caligiuri\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M. Johnson, Kiese Laymon, Valeria Luiselli, Kao Kalia Yang, and more, with a foreword by Zeke Caligiuri and an introduction by Eula Biss.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a volume edited by the imprisoned, because the history of class has always been written by the powerful.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking anthology of essays edited by incarcerated writers takes a sharp look at the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States. Featuring accounts that include gig work as a delivery driver, homelessness among trans youth, and life with immense student loan debt, in addition to transcripts of insightful discussions between the editors, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Precariat\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how various and often invisible extreme instability can be. With the understanding that widespread recognition of collective precarity is an urgent concern, the anthology situates each individual portrait within societal structures of exclusion, scarcity, and criminality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays write through the silence around class to enumerate the risks that our material conditions leave us no choice but to take. A rendering of the present moment told from below, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Precariat\u003c\/i\u003e shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division. In doing so, it offers healing for some of the world's fractures. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology was edited by twelve dynamic writers. They have worked as an economist, a farmer, a janitor, an activist, a cook, a musician, a wind-turbine laborer, a law student, a Navy vet, a courier, a restoration ecologist, a health aid, a teacher, and more. They are not only writers, they are visual artists, guitar players, drummers, football players, basketball players, and one former Quiz Bowl letterman. They are Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, pagan, and atheist. They've published books including: \u003cem\u003eThe Parameters of Our Cage, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThis Is Where I Am: A Memoir, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Liturgy of Smell, \u003c\/em\u003e among others. Their individual work has appeared in the\u003cem\u003e Nation, Poetry Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eWashington Post, Literary Hub, Terrain, Agni, \u003c\/em\u003e and others. They've been anthologized in countless PEN America Prison Writing Award volumes, \u003cem\u003eA Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePrison Noir\u003c\/em\u003e. They are from Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Kenya, Minneapolis. Today they live in Minnesota and believe in the power of art to alter society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.19 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701920330035,"sku":"9781566896955","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Nt8CKCAClI9781566896955.webp?v=1763283366","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/american-precariat-parables-of-exclusion-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}