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	Susan Sontag
		Sontag opens by describing Virginia Woolf's essay on the roots of war, "Three Guineas," in which Woolf described a set of gruesome photographs of mutilated bodies and buildings destroyed during the Spanish Civil War.
		Sontag parses the difference in our response to images of terrorism at home versus abroad, and forthrightly addresses our pornographic fascination with images of the wounded and dead.
		Ultimately, Sontag, scrupulous in her reasoning and exhilarating in her arguments, arrives at a paradox: although we're inundated more than ever before by stark visual evidence of the "pain of others," we've yet to increase our capacity to do something about it.
	www.nathanielturner.com /susansontag.htm (608 words)

	The Seattle Times: Books: Susan Sontag, author and activist, dies at 71
		NEW YORK — Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died today.
		Susan Sontag remembered her childhood as "one long prison sentence." She skipped three grades and graduated from high school at 15; the principal told her she was wasting her time there.
		In 2000, her novel "In America," about the 19th-century Polish actress Helena Modjeska, was a commercial disappointment and was criticized for the uncredited use of material from fiction and nonfiction sources.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/books/2002132736_webobit-sontag28.html (986 words)

	In America, by Susan Sontag
		In America is Susan Sontag's bold, brilliant new novel -- a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity.
		Maryna, who has renounced her career for this venture, is accompanied by her small son and her husband, an aristocrat in revolt against his family; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her.
		In America is about many things: a woman's search for self-transformation; the fate of idealism; a life in the theatre; the many varieties of love; and, not least of all, stories and storytelling itself.
	www.susansontag.com /inamerica.htm (326 words)

	Newsday.com: Author Susan Sontag Dies
		Susan Sontag, one of America's most influential intellectuals, internationally renowned for the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and her ardent activism in the cause of human rights, died today of leukemia.
		Sontag wrote about subjects as diverse as pornography and photography, the aesthetics of silence and the aesthetics of fascism, Bunraku puppet theater and the choreography of Balanchine, as well as portraits of such writers and intellectuals as Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Elias Canetti.
		Sontag was born Jan. 16, 1933, in New York City and raised in Tucson and Los Angeles, the daughter of an alcoholic schoolteacher mother and a fur trader father who died in China of tuberculosis during the Japanese invasion when Sontag was 5.
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/la-122804sontag_lat,0,4918993,print.story?coll=ny-entertainment-headlines (1978 words)

	JUST Response \| Between Europe & America \| Susan Sontag
		America is a neo-European country and, until the last few decades, was largely populated by European peoples.
		And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined to promote "identities" that fit into the larger patterns of distinctiveness, co-operation, and openness to innovation.
		For all the similarities in the daily lives of citizens in rich European countries and the daily lives of Americans, the gap between the European and the American experience is a genuine one, founded on important differences of history, of notions of the role of culture, of real and imagined memories.
	www.justresponse.net /Sontag.html (3727 words)

	Sontag, McChesney and the Rage of the Left
		Susan Sontag has been attacked so many times for her recent criticism of America's leadership, I assumed that what she wrote was a significant statement in opposition to our current foreign policy.
		And, if America were to publicly confess guilt and abandon its policies in the region, as Sontag and McChesney want, the terrorists would be closer to their ultimate goal of imposing a new tyranny amid the rubble of civilization.
		Sontag and the National Review are part of a larger trend in which activists on the left and right are fighting old battles in what appears to be a new phase of history.
	www.transparencynow.com /reform/sontag.htm (1584 words)

	IN AMERICA - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE
		The story of America from the point-of-view of an outsider/immigrant.
		Sontag died on December 28, 2004 at the relatively young age of 71, her work unfinished, a one-of-a-kind writer who is a heartbreaking, irreplaceable loss to contemporary life and literature.
		One of the ironies about her career is that despite her fame, readers and collectors never fully appreciated the magnitude of her achievement, that she is a writer's writer, and that she will endure long after currently fashionable and hopelessly provincial American writers are forgotten.
	www.modernrare.com /books/7568 (334 words)

	TomPaine.com - Sizing Up Sontag
		Immediately after 9/11, Andrew Sullivan created for his blog andrewsullivan.com a recurring entry called the “Sontag Award.” The mock award came in response to a New Yorker essay Susan Sontag wrote in which she criticized the conformity and manipulation of the Bush administration’s reaction to 9/11.
		Sontag argues that the photographs were taken to record events for future entertainment, and reflect a culture of shamelessness, “a pattern of criminal behavior in open contempt of international humanitarian conventions.” After all, we don’t even call these people “prisoners,” because that term implies a specific legal standing.
		I don’t agree with all of Sontag’s essay, but she makes a serious argument that the photographs need to be shown—all of them—and that doing so is the responsibility of a mature democracy.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/sizing_up_sontag.php (714 words)

	Amazon.ca: In America: Books: Susan Sontag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sontag's novel of immigration, America, Europe, art, religion and relationships is thought-provoking and a fascinating study.
		As Sontag's story unfolds we are treated to America and Americans through the eyes of a brilliant woman of the 19th century.
		I can't help but wonder why Sontag chose to tell much of the novel from her female protagonist's perspective, since her male narrators are so consistently vividly imagined and effective, and her female characters are not.
	www.amazon.ca /America-Susan-Sontag/dp/0613494377 (3030 words)

	Susan Sontag, 71, critic who was fiercely independent
		If such gestures seem incongruous with Sontag’s sterner side, it is partly because the world has changed since she admitted, in 1978, “Rock and roll really changed my life.” Sontag became more serious — more committed to literature and high art — as the culture became more frivolous.
		Sontag’s attraction to camp, and the simultaneous need to distance herself from it, came to characterize much of her relationship with gay culture, both in print and in life.
		Miller claimed that Sontag propagated the same damaging stereotypes about gay men with AIDS — that they are de facto promiscuous, and that they courted the plague as a kind of hedonistic suicide — that she ostensibly set out to debunk.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_88/susansontag71.html (1059 words)

	Susan Sontag to Speak April 12
		While on campus, Sontag will conduct a seminar for students and discuss her recent work with faculty members who are participating in the seminar Writing Beyond the Academy.
		Susan Sontag's influence has been felt in many arenas of American culture and throughout the world A prolific writer, she has written essays on such diverse subjects as aesthetics, photography, illness, and human rights.
		Sontag's other influential works include Styles of Radical Will (1969), which continued her explorations of contemporary culture and such phenomena as drugs, pornography, cinema, modern art, and music; On Photography (1976), a study of the force of photographic images; and Illness As Metaphor (1978), which was written after her cancer treatment.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/040601/sontag.shtml (641 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Susan Sontag
		A preeminent intellectual personage, Susan Sontag received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1951 at the age of eighteen.
		While Sontag is best known as a critic and essayist, she has also written collections of short stories, novels, plays, and films.
		Sontag has also been a human rights activist for more than two decades, and served as the president of the PEN American Center from 1987 to 1989.
	www.lectures.org /sontag2.html (881 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Susan Sontag: An Obituary by Roger Kimball
		Sontag dilates on pornography's "peculiar access to some truth." What she doesn't say is that The Story of O (for example) presents not an instance of mystical fulfillment but a graphic depiction of human degradation.
		America has become a criminal, sinister country--swollen with priggishness, numbed by affluence, bemused by the monstrous conceit that it has the mandate to dispose of the destiny of the world.
		Sontag excoriates American capitalism for its "runaway rate of productivity." But she has had no scruples about enjoying the fruits of that productivity: a Rockefeller Foundation grant in 1964, a Merrill Foundation grant in 1965, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1966, etc., etc., culminating in 1990 with a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16486 (2109 words)

	In America (Sontag) Summary
		Although Susan Sontag is best known as a critic, she has more than once expressed regret for having devoted so much time to having written the essays that brought her renown.
		Susan Sontag, cultural critic, essayist, novelist, and filmmaker, was born 16 January 1933 in New York City.
		In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag which won the National Book Award in 2000.
	www.bookrags.com /In_America_(Sontag) (262 words)

	Susan Sontag
		Although published 6 days after the tragedy, it was written only 35 hours later and was an immediate response to the succession of media and political figures that she saw on television who reacted, she felt, in terms of cliches, rather than with an endeavour to understand.
		From 1993 to 1996 Susan Sontag spent a lot of her time in Sarajevo where she was made an honarary citizen.
		Sontag seemed to be able to upset both the left and the right with her fearless thinking that was based on intellect and not shackled by political correctness or any attempt at popularity.
	www.biogs.com /famous/sontag.html (372 words)

	SUSAN SONTAG
		Sontag, who described herself as a "zealot of seriousness," was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York in 1933 and spent her early years in Tuscon, Arizona, and Los Angeles.
		Sontag dismissed Leni Reifenstahl in 1975, after the photographer had put in decades of work on her rehabilitation - all of which were ruined by the cool brilliance of Sontag's analysis of the allure of fascism.
		Sontag attended the University of California, Berkeley, for a semester, before in 1949, at the age of 16, she was admitted to the University of Chicago, where she formed strong bonds with teachers including critic Kenneth Burke and political philosopher Leo Strauss, intellectual father of the current neoconservatives.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /susan_sontag.html (10403 words)

	So Whose Words Are They? Susan Sontag Creates a Stir
		Sontag offers various explanations for using the language of others -- from indulging in a whimsical inside literary joke, playing with Cather's words, to drawing on the direct words of people she considers primary sources.
		Sontag said, she used the words not of "writers, but sources in the public domain" that inspired similar characters in her novel.
		Sontag remains surprised by such a reaction, given that her novel brought fresh attention to a historical figure who had become obscure.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/052700sontag-america.html (1853 words)

	Susan Sontag: An Interview
		Sontag: I think it has more to do with their lack of connection with the past than with being interested in the past.
		Sontag: I suppose the main tradition in photography is the one that implies that anything can be interesting if you take a photograph of it.
		Sontag: I do think that the photographer's orientation to the world is in competition with the writer's way of seeing.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR01.1/sontag.html (2501 words)

	Susan Sontag
		Susan Sontag was born in New York, N.Y. Sontag's father, Jack Rosenblatt, had a fur trading business in China - he died in China of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was five.
		Sontag's second novel, DEATH KIT (1967), a was a nightmarish meditation on life, death and the relationship between the two.
		Sontag died of complications of leukemia in Manhattan on December 28, 2004.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /sontag.htm (1745 words)

	Amazon.com: In America: A Novel: Books: Susan Sontag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this novel, a Polish theater star travels to America with her troop of blindly smitten friends and family in the late 19th century to live off the land and hide from the spotlight.
		There are rare glimpses of Sontag's tendency for profound insight throughout the novel in terms of her ability to recognize and document the subtle delicacies of human relationships.
		Sontag's novel of immigration, America, Europe, art, religion and relationships is thought-provoking and a fascinating study.
	www.amazon.com /America-Novel-Susan-Sontag/dp/0312273207 (3127 words)

	Alumna Sontag remembered for her critical analyses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sontag distinguished herself in a group of fine minds by her closely reasoned and informed convictions, Rosenheim recalled.
		Sontag and Rieff had a son, David Rieff, in 1952 and divorced in 1958.
		Sontag is survived by her son, David, who edited her work for many years.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /050203/obit-sontag.shtml (561 words)

	Susan Sontag - AOL Books
		Sontag combines Alice's feminism with the more famous Alice of fiction making a lot of the plot develop around a tea party which becomes a gathering of independent women of imagination: Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, Myrtha from the ballet Giselle and, as the somnolent dormouse, Kundry from Wagner's Parsifal.
		Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award (2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award (1978).
		In 1992 she received the Malaparte Prize in Italy, and in 1999 she was named a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (she had been named an Officier in the same order in 1984).
	books.aol.com /booklists/product/susansontag (209 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation: Susan Sontag -- February 2, 2001
		Sontag once reflected that all her work says: "Be serious, be passionate, wake up." And she has lived a life strongly committed to ideas and activism.
		SUSAN SONTAG: Well, what's interesting is all these things are always in America -- in the post-Civil War United States people were already regretting modernization and corruption and the mercenary spirit and harking back to an older America where people were virtuous and family values were stronger and people weren't so interested in money.
		SUSAN SONTAG: Well, I'll tell you, this was a little harder to do because I wrote "the Volcano Lover," that last novel in one go, just two and a half years, worked on it every day for two and a half years start to finish, consecutively.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/jan-june01/sontag_02-02.html (2044 words)

	Susan Sontag : In America : Book Review
		Through this operatic work of fiction, Sontag touches on what it must have been like to be European, in the late 19th century with a desire to go to America.
		Susan Sontag was a highly respected American essayist and novelist, known for her brilliant and original thinking and her analyses of contemporary culture.
		Sontag studied at University of California, Berkeley, but transferred to The University of Chicago receiving a BA in philosophy in 1951 at the age of eighteen.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /west/sontag.htm (1259 words)

	Susan Sontag, im memoriam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I'm catching the whole Susan Sontag postmortem a bit late, but she was a writer worth lingering over, to say the least.
		Sontag became very maternal and said that one should read not just in quantity but that also one needs to read challenging material.
		She stressed that it was very, very hard to become a writer (I think I correctly remember the double modifier), and that one must approach it with conscious effort, that it won't simply happen by chance or as one's hobby.
	home.att.net /~jamestata/sontag_review.html (634 words)

	Feature \| Excerpt of In America by Susan Sontag
		In America is Susan Sontag's kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity.
		The first coup de foudre I have experienced after a whole year in America is for a bossy, hoydenish girl who wears silly hats and shapeless serge capes and tells me that she keeps, for a household pet, a full-grown young pig.
		SUSAN SONTAG is the author of three other novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, and The Volcano Lover; I, etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays, including Alice in Bed;and five works of non-fiction, among them On Photography and Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors.
	www.januarymagazine.com /features/sontag-exc.html (3406 words)

	In America - Novel by Susan Sontag : Review : Pif - December 2000
		Elsewhere she considers America as a place of unlimited stories: the country where you can rewrite your history as often as you choose, change your name, embellish or erase your features as it suits you.
		Late in the novel, Maryna finds a metaphor for America, and the life of an actress, while playing solitaire backstage during intermissions: "You don't cheat when you play solitaire," she reflects.
		Sontag is nothing if not fiercely intelligent, and that intelligence (or that ferocity) makes her slippery.
	www.pifmagazine.com /2000/12/b_s_sontag2.php3 (536 words)

	M of A - Susan Sontag Died
		Both she and the NYRoB were criticized for failing to lose themselves in grief while America's leaders shed crocodile tears.
		No doubt that few, if any, of them will have the integrity to admit she told painful truths while others were exploiting those sad deaths to justify yet more and maybe even worse acts of war, torture and piggish thuggery under a thin veneer of argued necessity.
		As susan over at Suburban Guerilla say: It's depressing, that only in America are intellectuals considered to be unworthy of notice - except when they die, and everyone in the media gets to pretend they're familiar with her work.
	www.moonofalabama.org /2004/12/susan_sontag.html (793 words)

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