A Jar of Wild Flowers - Essays in Celebration of John Berger

John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. These essays tell us how he succeeded in that task.''Arundhati RoyIn this collection of essays on the work of, and conversations with, John Berger, thirty-seven of his friends, artistic collaborators and followers come together to form the first truly international and cross-cultural celebration of his interventions.Berger has for decades, through his poetic humanism, brought together geographically, historically and socially disparate subjects. His work continues to throw out lifelines across genres, times and types of experience, opening up radical questions about the meaning of belonging and of community. In keeping with this spirit and in celebration of Berger, the short essays in A of Wild Flowers challenge us all to take the brave step from limited sympathy to extended generosity.With contributions from Ali Smith, Julie Christie, Sally Potter, Ram Rahman, Jean Mohr, Nick Thorpe, Hsiao-Hung Pai and many others.>

About the author

Yasmin Gunaratnam is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She has been working on issues of race and gender equality in health and social care for the past twenty years at the Open University, Southampton University and the University of Central Lancashire. She is author of Researching Race and Ethnicity (2003) and has jointly edited Narratives and Stories in Health Care with David Oliviere (2009).

Product details

• Authors: , Amarjit Chandan, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Yasmin Chandan Gunaratnam, Jean Mohr
• Assisted by: Amarjit Chandan (Editor), Yasmin Gunaratnam (Editor), Gunaratnam Yasmin (Editor), Mohr Jean (Foreword), Sally Potter (Afterword)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2016
• EAN: 9781783608805
• ISBN: 978-1-78360-880-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Essays, Literarische Essays, Kunsttheorie, Theory of art, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, English, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, ART / Criticism & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary essays, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form