John Keene: Counternarratives

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

John Keene takes classic American narratives and stands them on their heads. In North and South American tales, he writes about the "others" (Indians, blacks, queers) to re-examine stories we think we know.

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1:01.7	Today I'm thrilled to have John Keen. He's the author of a collection of stories and novellas
1:08.6	called Counter Narratives. It's published by the venerable press, New Directions,
1:16.6	and it's appropriate that it be from New Directions in the world of Make It New,
1:22.6	the command as repound made.
1:26.6	New Directions has been making it new since their foundation,
1:31.3	and counter-narratives, these stories and novellas, they're very new in the fiction of the Americas.
1:42.3	It helps to say the fiction of the Americas because it would be a mistake
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