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When Cynthia Cruz was eleven years old, she suffered a life-altering trauma that changed the way she saw the world, and the way she saw herself in the world. In
Disquieting: Essays on Silence, Cruz returns to that trauma in an attempt to understand her response to it--what she's come to understand as a rejection of and resistance to the desires and ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture.
Tarrying with others who have provided examples of how to "turn away," these essays inhabit the connections between mental illness, anorexia, refusal, silence and Neoliberalism. How do our bodies speak for us when words don't suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable? Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disquietude that value open-endedness, complexity, and difficulty.
Disquieting: Essays on Silence draws on philosophy, theory, art, film, and literature to offer alternative ways of being in this world and possibilities for building a new one.
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Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Latinx Studies. How do our bodies speak for us when words don't suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable? In DISQUIETING, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to "turn away," or reject the ideologies of contemporary neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disquietude that value open-endedness, complexity, and difficulty. DISQUIETING: ESSAYS ON SILENCE draws on philosophy, theory, art, film, and literature to offer alternative ways of being in this world and possibilities for building a new one.
Synopsis
How do our bodies speak for us when words don't suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable? In Disquieting, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to ?turn away, ? or reject the ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and Neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disquietude that value open-endedness, complexity, and difficulty.
Disquieting: Essays on Silence draws on philosophy, theory, art, film, and literature to offer alternative ways of being in this world and possibilities for building a new one.