Title:
The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison.
ISBN:
9781555976712
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
226 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Empathy exams -- Devil's bait -- La frontera -- Morphology of the hit -- Pain tours (I) : La plata perdida ; Sublime, revised ; Indigenous to the hood -- Immortal horizon -- In defense of saccharin(e) -- Fog count -- Pain tours (II) : Ex-votos ; Servicio supercompleto ; 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.
Summary:
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn846545823
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
