The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing

by Michael D. Jackson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520275268
• ISBN13: 9780520275263
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"