{"id":525,"date":"2009-12-14T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T22:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2009-12-16T09:08:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T14:08:15","slug":"friends-neighbors-sesshu-foster-and-giveaway-at-molossus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/14\/friends-neighbors-sesshu-foster-and-giveaway-at-molossus\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends & Neighbors: Sesshu Foster and Giveaway at Molossus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sesshu<\/a>
Sesshu Foster's World Ball Notebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We mentioned Sesshu Foster’s\u00a0award-winning\u00a0collection World Ball Notebook <\/a><\/em>\u00a0back in November, when we\u00a0did a post <\/a>about the winners of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards.<\/p>\n

Well, it’s recently come to our attention that the magazine\/blog Molossus<\/a>,\u00a0which bills itself as “an online broadside of world literature,”\u00a0has posted\u00a0a lovely conversation<\/a> with Sesshu and is offering\u00a0its readers a chance to win a\u00a0free copy of World Ball Notebook<\/em> in partnership with City Lights (winner to be announced this Wednesday, Dec. 16th).\u00a0<\/p>\n

We loved what Sesshu had to say about using elements of indigenous heritage as “political and social iconography and ideology” rather than as “ethnography.”\u00a0 Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Our identity as Americans, as citizens of whatever it may be, is collectively bound up in on-going discourse and dialogue about our relations, our culture and history. Times change, and we can\u2019t recycle categorical definitions of ethnic character that are forty years old any more than we can recycle racist assumptions about the self from the 19th<\/sup> century. People do, of course, but writers are supposed to be hipper than that, more up to date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To read more of the interview or to enter the giveaway, head on over to Molossus<\/a> and check out their full post: “Atomik Aztek: A Conversation with Sesshu Foster + Book Giveaway!”<\/a> [on Molossus]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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