Machado, Carmen Maria: Short stories. Selections
Her body and other parties / Machado, Carmen Maria.
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Machado, Carmen Maria (författare)
Verk som ingår i eller hör samman med denna titel
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Husband stitch.
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Inventory.
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Mothers.
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Especially heinous.
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Real women have bodies.
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Eight bites.
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Resident.
- Machado, Carmen Maria. : Difficult at parties.
- ISBN 9781555977887
- Publicerad: 2017
- Engelska 245 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties.
- Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
- "In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella 'Especially Heinous,' Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction." -- Publisher's description.
Ämnesord
- Kvinnor (sao)
- Queer (sao)
- Män och kvinnor (sao)
- Identitet (psykologi) (sao)
- Women -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Women -- Identity -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Sexual minorities -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- FICTION / Science Fiction. (bisacsh)
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author) (bisacsh)
- Identity (Psychology) (LCSH)
- Women (LCSH)
- Sexual minority culture (LCSH)
- Sexual minority community (LCSH)
- Man-woman relationships (LCSH)
Genre
- Noveller (saogf)
- Psykologiska skildringar (saogf)
- Science fiction (saogf)
- Psychological fiction. (lcgft)
- Science fiction. (lcgft)
- Short stories. (lcgft)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Heq.016 Skönlitteratur: amerikansk: noveller
Klassifikation
- PS3613.A2725243 (LCC)
- 813/.6 (DDC)
- Heq.016 (kssb/8)
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