David Lohrey

Cette tude examine la relation entre la guerre et l'identit postcoloniale dans diverses oeuvres litt raires africaines et am ricaines. Elle se concentre sur la litt rature de l'auteur d plac du XXe si cle, telle qu'elle s'exprime dans des oeuvres de fiction qui montrent comment les traumatismes personnels refl tent l'exp rience collective. Cette tude explore la mani re dont un certain nombre d' crivains postcoloniaux embl matiques ont pr sent les cons quences psychologiques et politiques des traumatismes de l'apr s-guerre travers les g n rations. Elle soutient que la Premi re et la Seconde Guerre mondiale ont eu un impact profond sur le mode de vie, comme en t moignent les oeuvres d' crivains africains tels que Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer et Doris Lessing, et d' crivains am ricains tels que Saul Bellow, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko et John Edgar Wideman. L'argument propose une m thode de lecture des textes canoniques des crivains postcoloniaux comme des r cits de protestation, de transgression et de r g n ration.

"That was my first lesson as a male prostitute. Prostitutes don't own things. There's only a rental agreement, no contract. One needs to get serious."America is a nation in decline; that much is obvious. At what point did America go from splitting the atom to smashing statues, from Southern hospitality to apathetic vulgarity, from conquest and victory to dysfunction and defeat? There's a lot of ruin in a nation, and the best observer of that ruin is a man who's spent his life watching the buildings fall down.Bluff City is a collection of over 40 of David Lohrey's best short stories, poems, and more. Drawing on his Southern upbringing, background as a teacher, and life as an expat, Lohrey cuts through the white noise of American culture with trenchant observations and dark wit on everything from Elvis groupies to inner-city schools to Japanese porn theaters and more.This collection includes several stories and poems published by Terror House Magazine from 2018 to 2020.