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Bezig met laden... Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiversedoor L. Timmel Duchamp (Editor, Contributor)
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"Like Wikipedia, this book is written by many contributors but forms a unified whole. Sticking strictly to Wikipedia formatting, each chapter is a "missing" entry, detailing everything from the lost history of Nancy Drew's mother to the life of the independent, 19th-century female author who inspired Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher." Editor Duchamp, a longtime publisher of progressive, independent science fiction, has put together a wicked and witty sendup of how history is written today — and how some people and stories are systematically edited out of it. It's both an experiment with alternate history storytelling and a kind of companion piece to Beukes' Shining Girls. We are invited to think about whose stories disappear from the timestream, and why some ideas are so quickly erased by cultural amnesia and editorial 'consensus.'"
Missing Links and Secret Histories is an anthology of short fictions by Nisi Shawl, Anna Tambour, Lucy Sussex, Mark Rich, and others. Ever wonder who that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth century narrators, Dear Reader, really was? About Nancy Drews mother? Or what the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based his melodramatic Fall of the House of Usher was Perhaps it never occurred to you to wonder if their might be a relationship between H.G. Wells Dr. Moreau and Joseph Conrads Col. Kurtz, or why the popularity of fairy attendance waned in the eighteenth centurybut Missing Links and Secret Histories elucidates these and other mysteries (some admittedly occasionally obscure). It even includes excerpts from lost or suppressed manuscripts scholars have not even suspected, such as The V Manuscript written by the Marquis de Sade in 1783 while imprisoned in the Chateau de Vincennes, detailing an interview between the Marquis and a prisoner in the next cell calling himself de Hurlevent, but whom the Gimmerton Theory claims was really Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights fame. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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