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Indlæser... Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake Newsaf Kevin Young
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  Carlie | Oct 27, 2023 |    ) JhoiraArtificer | Mar 31, 2023 |  ) SESchend | Nov 2, 2021 | Perhaps because he is a poet, I sometimes had to strain to catch the connections he was making. Sometimes I found them difficult to follow. I don't think racism itself is usually the overt intent of people who commit these acts. Sometimes these people are psychopaths who are merely out to game the system; sometimes they are mentally ill. But the fact remains, their "bunk" could not succeed if the wider society were not racist. He made me think and see things in a different way. I will be more conscious of my own reactions and thoughts due to this book. That is no small accomplishment for a writer to achieve. (  ) Library_Lin | Oct 4, 2021 | Young's background is in literary criticism, and his analysis skews somewhat towards that, rather than to a strictly historical accounting. It's a fascinating read, but not necessarily a purely pleasurable one. (  ) arosoff | Jul 11, 2021 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and 'What Is It?', an African American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans like Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. This brilliant and timely work asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of 'truthiness' where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art."--Dust jacket flap. No library descriptions found. |
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The ideas of how race, racism, and other cultural themes intertwine with hoaxes, liars, plagiarism, forgery, and more is provocative. He dives deeply into many instances historically and how culture has played a role in who, when, how, and why people choose to hoax or fake or bend the truth. The problem I experienced was that he dove so deeply and neglected to give the reader an oxygen tank. I was left drowning in all of the text. While he did make me chuckle at his word play occasionally, it mainly felt like he was writing for himself rather than trying to reach out and take the journey together.