Doing Time: Essays on Using People

by Kristian Vistrup Madsen

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To write about someone else means both to expose and transform them. This is the dilemma of writing that Janet Malcolm describes as "morally indefensible." In Doing Time: Essays on Using People, Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael. Over several years, this spawns a series of reflections about the politics of solidarity and appropriation, but also about writing itself...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3981910842

ISBN13:9783981910841

Release Date:July 2021

Publisher:Floating Opera Press

Length:168 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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