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Beschreibung

From an award-winning writer, a critical reflection on the human desire to see and be seen

"A small, and watchful, masterpiece."-Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Brooklyn Rail

Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a lecture to a hot room. Her students have the internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing in more directions than students ever could before. But what, in fact, are they looking at?

In the spirit of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Sarah Minor's Carousel explores how the pursuit of panoramic vision frames power, distorts reality, and implicates both viewer and subject. Across short, loping sections that weave history with memoir, close looking with confession, Minor masterfully fuses the slide lecture with the lyric essay, tying medieval tapestries to surrealism and Instagram reels to predator drones. In language that captures the disorientation of that other carousel, the whirling carnival ride, Minor shows how the more we strive to see, the more we ultimately reveal ourselves.

From an award-winning writer, a critical reflection on the human desire to see and be seen

"A small, and watchful, masterpiece."-Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Brooklyn Rail

Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a lecture to a hot room. Her students have the internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing in more directions than students ever could before. But what, in fact, are they looking at?

In the spirit of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Sarah Minor's Carousel explores how the pursuit of panoramic vision frames power, distorts reality, and implicates both viewer and subject. Across short, loping sections that weave history with memoir, close looking with confession, Minor masterfully fuses the slide lecture with the lyric essay, tying medieval tapestries to surrealism and Instagram reels to predator drones. In language that captures the disorientation of that other carousel, the whirling carnival ride, Minor shows how the more we strive to see, the more we ultimately reveal ourselves.

Über den Autor

Sarah Minor is the author of two previous books, Bright Archive and Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, as well as the chapbook The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated. She teaches writing at the University of Iowa. Minor lives in Iowa City, IA.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780300284331
ISBN-10: 0300284330
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Minor, Sarah
Hersteller: Yale University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 220 x 144 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Minor
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
Gewicht: 0,344 kg
Artikel-ID: 135990411