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Susan Sontag 19332004 spoke of the promiscuity of art and literaturemdashthe willingness of great artists and writers to challenge and provoke toscandalize a spectator or reader with the critical frankness complexity andsometimes even the beauty of their work. Sontags life and work were no lesspromiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a limitless range ofsubjects mdashtheater sex politics novels torture illness mdashandcourted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout hercareer she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living wasthe embodiment of scandal.In this collection Terry Castle Nancy K. MillerWayne Koestenbaum E. Ann Kaplan and other leading scholars confront Sontagsgroundbreaking life and works anew. Against Interpretation Notes on CampLetter from Hanoi On Photography Illness as Metaphor I Etcetera and TheVolcano Lover mdashthese works form the center of essays no less passionateand imaginative than Sontag herself. They debate questions raised by thethinkers own images and identities including her sexuality. They questionSontags status as a female intellectual and her parallel interest in ambitiousand prophetic fictional women her ambivalence toward popular culture and herpersonal and professional scandals such as the accusations of antiAmericanism that followed her essay on 911. Rare photographs and illustrationsadd another dimension to an understanding of Sontags images and power. «
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