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Bezig met laden... Monster Portraitsdoor Sofia Samatar, Del Samatar (Illustrator)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Uniquely fun mini-monster portraits from a scholar in West African cultures and her brother, an illustrator. ( ) I have no idea what I just read, but it was a nice, incantatory little trip with these siblings. Liked the illustrations- his tattoo art must be amazing. The swoony publisher's description of a 'breathless journey and ground breaking study" makes it sound portentious, and maybe it is, but my favorite sentences are the ones like this: Sometimes I think work is the answer and sometimes I think it's the enemy. To summarize: an unhappy relationship with labor." Samatar has teamed up with her brother for this hybrid speculative memoir of small, almost prose-poetry entries in a field guide of a woman's experience. These are not pieces that you can read quickly or easily. They need time to rest and be fed. I have kept this book by my bedside and read one piece at a time over a series of weeks. What I love about these is how personal and yet public they are, how Samatar negotiates the liminal of our understanding of self and the journey therein. This book is a short, but powerful. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two{u2014}texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday {u2014}Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)001.944Information Computing and Information Knowledge Controversial knowledge Mysteries Monsters and related phenomena / CryptozoologyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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