The Paper Nautilus
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1988531799
ISBN-13
9781988531793
Publisher
Otago University Press
Imprint
Otago University Press
Country of Manufacture
NZ
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 2019
Print length
274 Pages
Weight
312 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 19.70 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
MemoirsProse: non-fiction
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The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth since, for new life to begin, the angelically beautiful but fragile shell that sustained a former life must be shattered. Michael Jackson has recourse to his ethnographic fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, as well as autobiography and fiction, in exploring his theme. This book crosses and blends genres most engagingly. Beginning as a series of essays, it gradually morphs into a mesmerising work of the imagination in which the boundary between author and other becomes blurred, and the line between fact and fiction erased.
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