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The Other Shore - Essays on Writers and Writing (Paperback)
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The Other Shore - Essays on Writers and Writing (Paperback)
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In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the
interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and
modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological
and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics
akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that
enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge
virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice
Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and
paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the
impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark
night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing,
and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the
standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place.
Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines
that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and
that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work
consummates a relationship with them.
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