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Thema: Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag, geboren als Susan Rosenblatt ? Sontag ist der Familienname ihres Stiefvaters
(* 16. Januar 1933; ? 28. Dezember 2004) war eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Essayistin, Publizistin und Regisseurin. Sie war bekannt für ihren Einsatz für Menschenrechte sowie als Kritikerin der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse und der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.
Von 1988 bis zu ihrem Tod lebte sie in einer Beziehung mit der Fotografin Annie Leibovitz. Immer wieder nahm Sontag auch Stellung zu lesbischen und schwulen Themen ? schon in den 60er Jahren war sie eine Ikone der schwulen Intellektuellenszene durch ihre legendären »Notes on Camp«.

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Benjamin Moser: Sontag

Benjamin Moser: Sontag

Her Life and Work. USA 2020, 815 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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Ecco
The portrait of one of the America's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

UK 2018, 64 pp., pb., € 7.95
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Penguin UK
»The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.« - These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between »high« and »low« culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Edmund White: City Boy

Edmund White: City Boy

My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. UK/D/USA/AUS 2010, 297pp., Pb, € 19.95
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When Edmund White left the Midwest after college he had an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. Instead, he followed a lover to New York City. There he arrives broke and unknown, struggling to express himself as a gay man even as he holds out hope of being »cured«. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, White witnesses the ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Reborn

Susan Sontag: Reborn

Early Diaries 1947-1963. UK 2009, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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This first volume of Sontag's private journals is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontag's writing - extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity. At 15, when these journals began, Sontag already displayed her ferocious intellect and hunger for experience and culture, though we're watching Sontag grow into one of the century's leading minds. Sontag details her ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Ching, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor (eds.): The Scandal of Susan Sontag

Barbara Ching, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor (eds.): The Scandal of Susan Sontag

USA 2009, 264 pp., brochure, € 33.95
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature - the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects - theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness - and courted celebrity and ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: At the Same Time

Susan Sontag: At the Same Time

USA 2008, 256 pp., pb., € 22.95
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Penguin UK
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. »At the Same Time« gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the ... Weiterlesen

Fabio Cleto (ed.): Camp

Fabio Cleto (ed.): Camp

Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader. UK 1999, 523 pp., brochure, € 55.99
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Edinburgh University Press
The book addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Picador
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote »Illness as Metaphor«, a classic work described by Newsweek as »one of the most liberating books of its time«. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper ... Weiterlesen

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