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The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison.

By:

Jamison, Leslie, (1983 -)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Minneapolis, MN : Graywold Press , 2014Description: 226 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781555976712

Subject(s):

Empathy
Pain

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).

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.

English.

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