Cuz: Danielle Allen - Softcover

Allen, Danielle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847925146 ISBN 13: 9781847925145

Verlag: Bodley Head, 2017

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'Devastating' J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature THE STORY OF A YOUNG MAN'S COMING OF AGEA TENDER TRIBUTE TO A LIFE LOSTA DEVASTATING ANALYSIS OF A BROKEN SYSTEMAged 15 and living in LA, Michael Allen was arrested for a botched carjacking., He was tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years behind bars. After growing up in prison Michael was then released aged 26, only to be murdered three years later. In this deeply personal yet clear-eyed memoir, Danielle Allen reconstructs her cousin's life to try and understand how this tragedy was the end result., We become intimate with Michael's experience, from his first steps to his first love, and with the events of his arrest, his coming of age in prison, and his attempts to make up for lost time after his release. We learn what it's like to grow up in a city carved up by invisible gang borders; and we learn how a generation has been lost. With breathtaking bravery and intelligence, Cuz circles around its subject, viewing it from all angles to expose a shocking reality., The result is both a personal and analytical view of a life that wields devastating power. This is the new American tragedy.

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"What starts as a personal memoir, an effort to resurrect from oblivion a beloved cousin who died young, modulates in Allen's hands into a cool, reasoned, but ultimately devastating indictment of the War on Drugs and the sentencing regime it has given birth to. In plain terms, stripped of the jargon of the social sciences, she shows us what awaits you if you are young, black, and unlucky in today's United States." (J. M. COETZEE)

"The genius of Cuz lies in its willingness to accept what isn’t known about Michael ... Her memoir defies genre and expectation ... Cuz is a literary miracle of form and content ... Allen’s ambitious breathtaking book challenges the moral composition of the world it inhabits by telling all who listen: I loved my cousin and he loved me, and I know he’d be alive if you loved him, too" (Kiese Laymon Washington Post Sunday)

"[Cuz] will stay with you for a long time ... Moving, tender, angry, insightful, this is a damning incitement of how the system fails to treat people as humans, at how gang culture affects families, and a look at how love can blind people and have terrible consequences." (Stylist Magazine)

"Cuz will break your heart. Of the recent books that have done so much against such great odds to create a meaningful anti-incarceration movement in America, it may be the most compelling ... Danielle Allen brilliantly and searingly lays all of this out ...remarkable." (Jim Kaplan The National Book Review)

"I can only stand in awe of Cuz’s account of her, Micheal’s and their family’s ordeals." (Huffington Post)

"Allen makes way for letters Michael wrote from behind bars. You finally see Michael then. And, as Allen said, he is beautiful ... Michael is a virtuoso of a writer, and his brilliant letters chronicle his growth from boy to man in California’s penitentiary system." (Greg Howard New York Times Book Review)

"Allen’s exceptional professional accomplishments make her latest effort, a memoir about the soul-crushing murder of her beloved younger cousin Michael, all the more stirring ... a just and moving tribute to a family member she knew incompletely, but loved unfailingly ... As a memoirist, Allen is genuinely gifted." (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"A compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story [...] Among the most valuable contributions Allen makes is forcing us to ask: To what end are we locking up our children? Are we not foreclosing their options before their lives have even begun? [...] Allen’s analysis of gang culture [...] may be where she’s at her ferocious best" (Jennifer Senior New York Times)

"I was left stunned by it. Required reading." (Sarah Shaffi Monocle)

"In this narrative of freedom and incarceration, education and disadvantage, rehabilitation and punishment, Danielle Allen paints an unforgettable portrait of a cousin she loved. The pacing is brisk and novelistic, but the message is large and clear: we need urgently to reform the system through which we process juveniles who commit crime, because the current system perpetuates the very injustices it was designed to address." (ANDREW SOLOMON)

Biografía del autor:

Danielle Allen is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, professor in Harvard’s Department of Government and Graduate School of Education, Chair of the Mellon Foundation Board, past Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Allen is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought and is widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America.

She is a frequent public lecturer and regular guest on public radio to discuss issues of citizenship, as well as an occasional contributor on similar subjects to the Washington Post, Boston Review, Democracy, Cabinet, and The Nation.

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• Verlag: Bodley Head
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1847925146
• ISBN 13: 9781847925145
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256