Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living

The essays in Ruin link meditations on teaching, friendship, motherhood, love, the financial meltdown in Greece, the shared language of politics and advertising, Occupy Wall Street, and the Parthenon Marbles into a relentless interrogation of identity and loss. Kalfopoulou's Athens and New York are twinned sites of perpetual dislocation, palimpsests of political, economic, cultural--and personal--crisis. The refugee, the immigrant, the fragmented 'I' charted in these essays--all are studies in exilic living, pilgrims wandering the wreckage of late capitalism.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 09/09/2014
ISBN: 9781597095372
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Foreword 11/26/2014