Commons

Name: Commons
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ISBN: 9780520231443

ISBN-10: 0520231449

ISBN-13: 9780520231443

Edition: 2010

Authors: Myung Mi Kim

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Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, registering as very few works of literature have done our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease, and first-language loss until only sparse phrases remain, Kim takes on the anguish and displacement of those whose lives are embedded in history. Kim's blank spaces are loaded silences: openings through which readers enter the text and find their way. These silences reveal gaps in memory and articulate experiences that will not translate into language at all. Her words retrieve the past in much the same way the human mind…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



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