Njezino tijelo i drugi stranci
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- Author: Machado Carmen Maria
- Publisher: V.B.Z.
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 79567
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Njezino tijelo i drugi stranci
Machado Carmen Maria
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Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Strangers
The book of stories Her Body and Other Strangers, the debut of the American author Carmen Maria Machado, became a sensation after its publication. It was shortlisted for the American National Literary Award, and the New York Timesincluded it among the fifteen books by authors of the New Avant-Garde, which define new ways of writing fiction in the 21st century.
Machada's book is anything but ordinary: original, provocative, disturbing - but poetic and cathartic. Machado pushes the boundaries, combines real and surreal, horror, magical realism and folk tales with queer theory and media culture. Each of the stories in its own way embodies the experience of living in a female body, maps the pressure, prejudices and violence against the female body, what is imposed on it by society or by women themselves. A woman refuses her husband's pleas to remove the mysterious green ribbon from her neck because she has worn it her whole life and it is the only thing she has kept for herself. A saleswoman in a mall makes a terrifying discovery about the dresses in the store. Young girls are literally disappearing; a woman is being chased by a monster. One of the stories reprints the phantasmagorical recaps of Law & Order episodes full of ghosts and girls with bells in their eyes because we naively thought the show had it all. Now we inevitably ask ourselves: where does our fixation on series in which women rape and kill come from?
Machada's prose is eclectic and erotic, comic and dead serious, in it everything vibrates, flickers and overflows with the richness of language: like an explosion of colors in the paintings of Frida Kahlo. And as the jury of the National Literary Award concluded: "In their explosive originality, these stories expand the possibilities of contemporary fiction."
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- Author: Machado Carmen Maria
- Publisher: V.B.Z.
- Year of publication:2023
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:257
- Dimensions:14x20 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Softcover
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