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OverviewA poet’s debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence, our inability to partake in our culture as innocents, and our complicity as Americans in all that’s wrong with the United States from the author’s specific vantage point as a Black Dominican American man. The voice in these essays is both clear and nuanced, and as readers move through the collection, the various themes cohere into a multilayered investigation of institutional racism and the inherent exploitations of capitalism. In essays that are uniquely straightforward and accessible, Garcia insists that in order to resist state-sanctioned violence against marginalized bodies and populations, we must understand our shared history of oppression—so that we can rise against it effectively and find new paths forward. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roberto Carlos GarciaPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780810147881ISBN 10: 0810147882 Pages: 136 Publication Date: 15 October 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsThe Diaspora black / Maybe So, You’re Afro-Latinx. Now What? Trapped in History On Junot DÍaz and the Literati “I Am the Darker Brother”: On MichÈle Stephenson’s Stateless and Dominican Racism This Is America Ten Minutes of Terror Men Don’t Cry: On Toxic Masculinity Traveling Freely Distraction: Bob Hicok’s Essay as Poetry’s MAGA Moment Home: An Irrevocable Condition American Violence Save the Babies I Believe That We Will Win Amiri Baraka: In Unity and Struggle The Self Sheltered in Place: On Pessoa, Heteronyms, and the Pandemic “… a walk through this beautiful world …” [On Bourdain and Suicide] Sources and Resources Sources ResourcesReviews"“Garcia walks through the world as a poet, seeing the invisible aspects of the human condition that he writes with familiarity and integrity. Reporting from the inside, not the outside, the poetic voice within these essays simply sings.” —Randall Horton, author of Dead Weight ""Reading Traveling Freely, is exactly like the joy of reading James Baldwin for the very first time. Here is an important AfroLatinx voice illuminating valuable insights for not only understanding global race politics, but also for obtaining concrete counsel on what we can all do wherever we are. Like Baldwin, Roberto Carlos Garcia does this labor of love with the elegance of a poet that can both inform and transform us.""—Tanya Kateri Hernandez, author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" """Garcia walks through the world as a poet, seeing the invisible aspects of the human condition that he writes with familiarity and integrity. Reporting from the inside, not the outside, the poetic voice within these essays simply sings."" --Randall Horton, author of Dead Weight ""Reading Traveling Freely, is exactly like the joy of reading James Baldwin for the very first time. Here is an important AfroLatinx voice illuminating valuable insights for not only understanding global race politics, but also for obtaining concrete counsel on what we can all do wherever we are. Like Baldwin, Roberto Carlos Garcia does this labor of love with the elegance of a poet that can both inform and transform us.""--Tanya Kateri Hernandez, author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" Author InformationRoberto Carlos Garcia is the author of several books, including What Can I Tell You? Selected Poems. as well as the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing, a literary nonprofit. The recipient of a 2023 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, he writes about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. His work has been published in Poetry Magazine, NACLA, The Root, Poets & Writers, and the anthology BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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