Hotel Oblivion by Cruz, Cynthia

Hotel Oblivion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781954245112)

Vendor: Cynthia Cruz
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Format: Paperback
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Hotel Oblivion by Cruz, Cynthia

Hotel Oblivion

$16.95
Hotel Oblivion by Cruz, Cynthia

Hotel Oblivion

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes, thus, there is no working class, the main subject of Hotel Oblivion, a working class subject, does not exist. With no access to a past, she has no home, no history, no memory. And yet, despite all this, she will not assimilate. Instead, this book chronicles the subject's repeated attempts at locating an exit from capitalist society via acts of negative freedom and through engagement with the death drive, whose aim is complete destruction in order to begin all over again. In the end, of course, the only true exit and only possibility for emancipation for the working class subject is through a return to one's self. In Hotel Oblivion, through a series of fragments and interrelated poems, Cruz resists invisibilizing forces, undergoing numerous attempts at transfiguration in a concerted effort to escape her fate"--

Author: Cynthia Cruz
ISBN-10: 1954245114
ISBN-13: 9781954245112
Publisher: Four Way Books
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2022
By Cynthia Cruz
By Cynthia Cruz
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Cruz is the author of six collections of poems: Guidebooks for the Dead (Four Way Books, 2020), Dregs (Four Way Books, 2018), How the End Begins (Four Way Books, 2016), Wunderkammer (Four Way Books, 2014), The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, 2012) and Ruin (Alice James Books, 2006). Disquieting: Essays on Silence, a collection of critical essays exploring the concept of silence as a form of resistance, was published by Book*hug in the spring of 2019. The Melancholia of Class, an exploration of melancholia and the working class, was published by Repeater Books in July of 2021.

Cruz earned an MA in German Language and Literature from Rutgers University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the European Graduate School where her area of research is psychoanalysis and philosophy. Cruz teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University and is a visiting writer in the MFA Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a mentor in the Low Residency MFA Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Cruz co-edits the multi- disciplinary online journal, Schlag Magazine.

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