The Performance of Becoming Human

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The Performance of Becoming Human

Following in the path of his acclaimed collections The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011) and In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015), Daniel Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies absorb and destroy communities and economies. In The Performance of Becoming Human, the bay of Valparaiso merges into the western shore of Lake Michigan, where Borzutzky continues his poetic investigation into the political and economic violence shared by Chicago and Chile, two places integral to his personal formation. To become human is to navigate borders, including the fuzzy borders of institutions, the economies of privatization, overdevelopment, and underdevelopment, under which humans endure state-sanctioned and systemic abuses in cities, villages, deserts. Borzutzky, whose writing Eileen Myles has described as â€œviolent, perverse, and tenderâ€ in its portrayal of a â€œkaleidoscopic journey of American horror and global horror,â€ adds another chapter to a growing and important compendium of work that asks what it means to a be both a unitedstatesian and a globalized subject whose body is â€œshared between the earth, the state, and the bank.â€

Country	USA
Author	Daniel Borzutzky
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Brooklyn Arts Press
Manufacturer	Brooklyn Arts Press
NumberOfPages	98
PublicationDate	2016-02-15
Publisher	Brooklyn Arts Press
ReleaseDate	2016-02-15
Studio	Brooklyn Arts Press

The Performance of Becoming Human

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