The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis, MN : Graywold Press , 2014Description: 226 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781555976712
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814.6 JAM 
LOC classification:
  • PS3610.A485 E47 2014
Contents:
The empathy exams -- Devil's bait -- La frontera -- Morphology of the hit -- Pain tours (I) : La plata perdida ; Sublime, revised ; Indigenous to the hood -- The immortal horizon -- In defense of saccharin(e) -- Fog count -- Pain tours (II) : Ex-votos ; Servicio supercompleto ; The broken heart of James Agee -- Lost boys -- Grand unified theory of female pain -- Works consulted -- Acknowledgements --Judge's afterword / Robert Polito -- A conversation with Leslie Jamison.
Abstract: A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
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Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize 2011

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).

The empathy exams -- Devil's bait -- La frontera -- Morphology of the hit -- Pain tours (I) : La plata perdida ; Sublime, revised ; Indigenous to the hood -- The immortal horizon -- In defense of saccharin(e) -- Fog count -- Pain tours (II) : Ex-votos ; Servicio supercompleto ; The broken heart of James Agee -- Lost boys -- Grand unified theory of female pain -- Works consulted -- Acknowledgements --Judge's afterword / Robert Polito -- A conversation with Leslie Jamison.

A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.

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