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  title info:
    title: Thin skin
    sub title: essays
  name:
    name part: Shapland, Jenn
    name part: 1987-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: essay
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 270 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity, thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have on people, places and species far away, she can't stop seeing the ways we are enmeshed and entangled with everyone else on the planet. Despite our attempts to cordon ourselves off from risk, our boundaries are permeable. Weaving together historical research, interviews and her everyday life in New Mexico as source material, Shapland probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire. She traces the legacies of nuclear weapons development on Native land, unable to let go of her search for contamination until it bleeds out into her own family's medical history. She questions the toxic myth of white womanhood and the fear she has been made to feel since her girlhood when traveling alone. And she explores her desire to build a creative life as a queer woman, asking whether such a thing as a meaningful life is possible under capitalism. Ceaselessly curious, uncompromisingly intelligent, and urgently seeking, with Thin Skin Shapland builds thrillingly on her genre-defying debut, firmly establishing her as one of the sharpest essayists of her generation.
  table of contents: Thin skin -- Strangers on a train -- The toomuchness -- Crystal vortex -- The meaning of life.
  note: Jenn Shapland.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: American essays
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Capitalism
  subject:
    topic: Women
  classification: PS3619.H356318 T45 2023
  classification: 814/.6
  identifier: 9780593317457
  identifier: 0593317459
  identifier: 9780593317464
  identifier: 2022049873
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221028
    record change date: 20241018205408.8
    record identifier: in00004745783