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Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anna Deavere SmithPublish date:2001-10-16Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780385721745ISBN-10:385721749UPC:9780385721745Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:American Government, Media Studies, LinguisticsBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC8APQYXDK
Anna Deveare Smith's award-winning one-woman shows were borne of her uniquely brilliant ability to listen. In Talk to Me she applies her rare talent to the language of political power in America.

Believing that character and language are inextricably bound, Smith sets out to discern the essence of America by listening to its people and trying to capture its politics. To that end she travels to some of America's most conspicuous places, like the presidential conventions of 1996, and some of its darkest corners, like a women's prison in Maryland. And along the way she interviews everyone from janitors to murderers to Bill Clinton himself. Memoir, social commentary, meditation on language, this book is as vastly ambitious as it is compellingly unique.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780385721745ISBN-10:385721749UPC:9780385721745Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:American Government, Media Studies, LinguisticsBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC8APQYXDK
Playwright, actress, teacher, Anna Deavere Smith is most of all a listener. For years she has created unique art by listening more closely than others, listening with the belief that language and character are inextricably bound. In Talk to Me she listens in search of America.

Smith's goal is to discern the American character and to capture its politics. To that end she travels everywhere from the site of recent church burnings in rural Alabama to the presidential conventions of 1996, from the segregated Baltimore of her childhood to the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women. And along the way she interviews everyone from Studs Terkel to President Bill Clinton himself. The result is a defiantly brilliant book that honors no rules.
Publisher: Anchor Books

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