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The Riots Paperback - 2013

by Danielle Cadena Deulen

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Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen's artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender.

In "Aperture," she considers how she has contributed to her autistic brother's isolation from family and from the world. "Theft" investigates her mother's romantic stories about conquistadors in the context of the Mexican heritage of her biracial family. Throughout the collection Deulen experiments formally, alternating traditional narrative with "still life" essays and collages that characterize a particular time, place, and sensibility.

Deulen is remarkable in her ability to present her own confusion and culpability, and she also writes with compassion for others, such as her own suicidal and unpredictable father or a boy in her class who sets the teacher's hair on fire. In part because she herself so poorly fits the identities she might be assigned--white in appearance, she is in fact half Latina; raised in a poor neighborhood, she has acquired an education associated with the middle class--Deulen sees "otherness" as a useless category and the enemy of intimacy, which she embraces despite its risks.

The Riots seeks to create what Frost called "a momentary stay against confusion," and Deulen investigates her own act of creation even as she uses the craft of writing to put parentheses around the chaos of continuous living.

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  • Title The Riots
  • Author Danielle Cadena Deulen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press
  • Publication date 2013-01-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780820344386 / 0820344389
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.7 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.6

About the author

DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN is a poet and essayist. She is the author of a memoir, The Riots (winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction); two poetry collections, Lovely Asunder (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize) and Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us (winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize); as well as a poetry chapbook, American Libretto (winner of the Sow's Ear Chapbook Contest). She is an associate professor at Willamette University and hosts the literary podcast and radio show "Lit from the Basement" at LitFromTheBasement.com. Her author's website is danielledeulen.net.

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