Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781622889280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Dreaming of Endangered Species by : Anand Prahlad
Download or read book Dreaming of Endangered Species written by Anand Prahlad and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming of Endangered Species explores issues of health and illness, disability and cure, and human frailty and vulnerability in an age of global unease and uncertainty. It maps a tension between the infinite and finite, between the concrete and ethereal. In some ways, it is a celebration of the mundane, by which I mean the world of everyday objects, of plants and animals, scents, textures, movements, water, and phases of the moon. But interwoven with this testament to ineffable beauty, this celebratory mode, are reflections on my cancer, for example, my autistic strivings, my gender queer identity, and the plight of the natural world. A recurrent thread that runs through the manuscript is the idea of dreaming, which offers a kind of poetic membrane, a connective tissue that softens some of the weighty concerns and allows them a more muted resonance than they might otherwise have.