{"product_id":"ruin-essays-in-exilic-living-paperback","title":"Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrianne Kalfopoulou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eRuin\u003c\/i\u003e link meditations on teaching, friendship, motherhood, love, the financial meltdown in Greece, the shared language of politics and advertising, Occupy Wall Street, and the Parthenon Marbles into a relentless interrogation of identity and loss. Kalfopoulou's Athens and New York are twinned sites of perpetual dislocation, palimpsests of political, economic, cultural--and personal--crisis. The refugee, the immigrant, the fragmented 'I' charted in these essays--all are studies in exilic living, pilgrims wandering the wreckage of late capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrianne Kalfopoulou is Associate Professor of Language and Literature at Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece. She is the author of two poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eWild Greens\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePassion Maps\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Red Hen Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHotel Amerika\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssays \u0026amp; Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoom Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFogged Clarity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Broome Street Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught creative writing and literature in the Creative Writing Program at New York University and at the University of Freiburg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48422312280313,"sku":"9781597095372","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WQ2Vvw_Bfu9781597095372.webp?v=1779263720","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ruin-essays-in-exilic-living-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}