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Radical Red

Av Nathan Dixon

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As income inequality soars, as industries become further mechanized, as the populace cries out for some semblance of a social safety net and corporations complain of too much regulation, we are long overdue for a strong dose of protest literature. Thiswinner of the 15th annual BOA Short Fiction Prize features linkedstories that indict the ultraconservative movement that emerged at the end ofthe Cold War and extends into present day. One strand of narratives follows a cohort of tea partyconservatives—a politician, a radioman, and atelevangelist—as their hyperbolic languageshapes the world around them and leads to episodes of time travel and bodyhorror. The second strand follows individuals victimized by conservativepolicy: their voices, their futures, their very bodies stripped from theirpossession. The final strand investigates the ways in which young conservativeshave adapted the nostalgic rhetoric of their forebears to carry on the twinprojects of minority oppression and environmental degradation—both of which they couch in the language of “freedom.” The book is set in the South and parodies the stereotypesthat are still so prevalent here. Although the characters are more than mereciphers, they move through their semi-speculative world to illustrate ideas inthe same way as Richard Wright and Ursala Le Guin’s characters.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-07-24
  • Mått: 133 x 203 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 349 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 206
  • Förlag: BOA Editions, Limited
  • ISBN: 9781960145703
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize 2023 (United States)
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NathanDixon received his PhD in English literature and creative writingfrom the University of Georgia. His first book, Radical Red, wonthe BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize. His creative work has appeared in TheGeorgia Review, Fence, Tin House, CarolinaQuarterly, Quarterly West, Redivider, andelsewhere. His critical/academic work has appeared in MELUS Journal, 3:AM, Transmotion,and Renaissance Papers. He currently teaches at North Carolina Central University andlives with his family in Durham, NC.

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"NateDixon’s masterfully crafted stories back readers into a corner and make themsquirm. Challenging and subversive, Radical Red picks at theabsurd contradictions and injustices that are woven into the fabric of Americandemocracy." –Maggie Su, authorof Blob: A Love Story"RadicalRed is a corrective to a most peculiar trend in American letters. For closeto four decades, writers have incrementally squeezed themselves into tighterperceptual and experiential corners. We call it, ‘staying in one's lane.’ Whileit's true you can't tell another's story, it's all in vain if our stories don'tmove others, spark the imagination, move the heart, and keep the Americanconversation alive. Nathan Dixon's galvanic, strange, and beautifully writtencollection says, ‘I hear you, cousins. Let's keep this thing going.'" –Reginald McKnight, author of HeSleeps"Philip Roth famously said ofAmerican Reality that it instills in the American Fiction writer a kind ofprofessional envy. Nathan Dixon, in the extra extreme fictions found in Radical Red, creates a Reality AmericanReality must envy for real. These fictions are squared dances of Sydenham’schorea, crowd sourced unbroken fevered dreams on steroids. All the circuitbreakers breaking, all the clocks persistently melting. Dixon is a dementedDonald Barthelme dispensing meter-read disgraces, a media influencer Vonnegutdoing unstuck loose-limbed tap dances on Bizarro TikTok." –Michael Martone, author of PlainAir: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana and The Complete Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne

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